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Episode Guide
Episodes 001–175
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Last episode aired Monday May 21, 2012
c 2012 www.tv.com
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Contents
Season 1
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Pilot . . . . . . . . .
Paternity . . . . . .
Occam’s Razor . . .
Maternity . . . . . .
Damned If You Do .
The Socratic Method
Fidelity . . . . . . .
Poison . . . . . . . .
DNR . . . . . . . . .
Histories . . . . . . .
Detox . . . . . . . .
Sports Medicine . .
Cursed . . . . . . . .
Control . . . . . . .
Mob Rules . . . . . .
Heavy . . . . . . . .
Role Model . . . . .
Babies & Bathwater
Kids . . . . . . . . .
Love Hurts . . . . .
Three Stories . . . .
Honeymoon . . . . .
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Acceptance . . . . . . . .
Autopsy . . . . . . . . . .
Humpty Dumpty . . . . .
TB or Not TB . . . . . . .
Daddy’s Boy . . . . . . .
Spin . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hunting . . . . . . . . . .
The Mistake . . . . . . . .
Deception . . . . . . . . .
Failure to Communicate
Need to Know . . . . . . .
Distractions . . . . . . . .
Skin Deep . . . . . . . . .
Sex Kills . . . . . . . . . .
Clueless . . . . . . . . . .
Safe . . . . . . . . . . . .
All In . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sleeping Dogs Lie . . . .
House vs. God . . . . . .
Euphoria (1) . . . . . . .
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Season 2
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3
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House, MD Episode Guide
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Euphoria (2) . . . .
Forever . . . . . . .
Who’s Your Daddy?
No Reason . . . . . .
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Meaning . . . . . . . . .
Cane & Able . . . . . .
Informed Consent . . .
Lines in the Sand . . .
Fools for Love . . . . . .
Que Será Será . . . . .
Son of Coma Guy . . .
Whac-A-Mole . . . . . .
Finding Judas . . . . .
Merry Little Christmas
Words and Deeds . . .
One Day, One Room . .
Needle in a Haystack .
Insensitive . . . . . . .
Half-Wit . . . . . . . . .
Top Secret . . . . . . . .
Fetal Position . . . . . .
Airborne . . . . . . . . .
Act Your Age . . . . . .
House Training . . . . .
Family . . . . . . . . . .
Resignation . . . . . . .
The Jerk . . . . . . . . .
Human Error . . . . . .
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Alone . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Right Stuff . . . . . .
97 Seconds . . . . . . . .
Guardian Angels . . . . .
Mirror, Mirror . . . . . . .
Whatever It Takes . . . .
Ugly . . . . . . . . . . . .
You Don’t Want to Know
Games . . . . . . . . . . .
It’s A Wonderful Lie . . .
Frozen . . . . . . . . . . .
Don’t Ever Change . . . .
No More Mr. Nice Guy . .
Living the Dream . . . . .
House’s Head (1) . . . . .
Wilson’s Heart (2) . . . .
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Dying Changes Everything
Not Cancer . . . . . . . . .
Adverse Events . . . . . . .
Birthmarks . . . . . . . . .
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Season 3
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Lucky Thirteen . . .
Joy . . . . . . . . . .
The Itch . . . . . . .
Emancipation . . . .
Last Resort . . . . .
Let Them Eat Cake
Joy to the World . .
Painless . . . . . . .
Big Baby . . . . . . .
The Greater Good .
Unfaithful . . . . . .
The Softer Side . . .
The Social Contract
Here Kitty . . . . . .
Locked In . . . . . .
Simple Explanation
Saviors . . . . . . .
House Divided . . .
Under My Skin . . .
Both Sides Now . .
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Now What? . . . . . . .
Selfish . . . . . . . . .
Unwritten . . . . . . .
Massage Therapy . . .
Unplanned Parenthood
Office Politics . . . . .
A Pox on Our House .
Small Sacrifices . . . .
Larger Than Life . . . .
Carrot or Stick . . . . .
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Season 6
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Epic Fail . . . . . .
The Tyrant . . . .
Instant Karma . .
Brave Heart . . . .
Known Unknowns
Teamwork . . . . .
Ignorance is Bliss
Wilson . . . . . .
The Down Low . .
Remorse . . . . .
Moving the Chains
5 to 9 . . . . . . .
Private Lives . . .
Black Hole . . . .
Lockdown . . . .
Knight Fall . . . .
Open and Shut .
The Choice . . . .
Baggage . . . . . .
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Family Practice . . . . . .
You Must Remember This
Two Stories . . . . . . . . .
Recession Proof . . . . . .
Bombshells . . . . . . . . .
Out of the Chute . . . . .
Fall From Grace . . . . . .
The Dig . . . . . . . . . . .
Last Temptation . . . . . .
Changes . . . . . . . . . .
The Fix . . . . . . . . . . .
After Hours . . . . . . . . .
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Twenty Vicodin . . .
Transplant . . . . .
Charity Case . . . .
Risky Business . . .
The Confession . . .
Parents . . . . . . .
Dead & Buried . . .
Perils of Paranoia .
Better Half . . . . .
Runaways . . . . . .
Nobody’s Fault . . .
Chase . . . . . . . .
Man of the House .
Love is Blind . . . .
Blowing the Whistle
We Need the Eggs .
Body and Soul . . .
The C-Word . . . . .
Post Mortem . . . .
Holding On . . . . .
Everybody Dies . . .
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Actor Appearances
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IV
Season One
Pilot
Season 1
Episode Number: 1
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired:
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Director:
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Summary:
Tuesday November 16, 2004 on FOX
David Shore
Bryan Singer
Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Hugh
Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron)
Robin Tunney (Rebecca Adler), Rekha Sharma (Melanie Landon), Maya
Massar (Asthma Mom), Dylan Basu (Asthma), Ava Rebecca Hughes
(Sydney), Kvarra Willis (Kid #2), Ethan Kyle Gross (Molnar/InternetResarch Patient), Candus Churchill (Substitute Teacher), Michale Ascher (Egg Salad Lady), Alana Husband (Tech), Janet Glassford (Reception Nurse), Andrew Airlie (Orange- Colored Patient)
HOU-101
A young kindergarten teacher, Rebecca Adler, who suffers from
seizures collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips
out her mouth while she is about to teach her students. She is taken
to Dr. House and his team of experts who identify it might be a tumor,
and she might have only a week to live.
A young kindergarten teacher named Rebecca passes out in front of her class after talking
gibberish. After she collapses she begins having convulsions. At the hospital, Dr. James Wilson
describes the case to Dr. House, a doctor with an excellent reputation but is known for keeping
a distance from his patients. Dr. Wilson explains that Rebecca’s mental status is deteriorating
quickly. House agrees to take the case. His team consists of three young intelligent doctors:
Allison Cameron, Robert Chase, and Eric Foreman.
Later, Dr. Cameron and Dr. Foreman give Rebecca a CT scan, but after a panic attack she
has another seizure. Her breathing stops and the doctors perform an emergency tracheotomy to
help her breath. House wonders if Rebecca’s problem is a case of inflamed blood vessels. The
only problem is you can’t diagnose this without a biopsy, but House tells them to give Rebecca
steroids anyway.
Upon suggestions from House, Foreman breaks into Rebecca’s house to see if he can determine that there is something in Rebecca’s apartment that is causing the seizures. Back at the
hospital, the steroids seem to be helping Rebecca, but then she suddenly loses her vision, and
more seizures follow. The next day, Foreman tests Rebecca’s mental status, but she fails, but
later does again and passes easily. House then suggests they let her die and then examine her
post-mortem so they can discover what she was suffering from.
Later, Foreman mentions casually that Rebecca had ham in her fridge. House suddenly realizes what is going on - Rebecca has a tapeworm in her brain! They tell Rebecca, but she doesn’t
want any more treatments. She just wants to go home and die peacefully. House calls her a coward, in an attempt to get her to accept treatment. She demands proof that it’s a worm, since he
was wrong on everything else. Chase, however, suggests a plain x-ray to check for worms. House
realizes that he’s right...if there’s a worm in the brain (even though it wouldn’t show up due to
having the same thickness as cerebral fluid), there is one in her leg. And that one will show up.
They show Rebecca the x-ray. Sure enough, there is a worm larvae in her thigh. She will make
a full recovery, with nothing but a few pills.
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Paternity
Season 1
Episode Number: 2
Season Episode: 2
Originally aired:
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Summary:
Lawrence Kaplow
Peter O’Fallon
Cameron)
Kylee Cochran (Young Mother), Alex Skuby (John Funsten), Scott
Mechlowicz (Dan), Paul Ganus (Trainer), Robin Thomas (Dan’s Father),
Wendy Gazelle (Dan’s Mother), Scott Hochstadt (Jake)
HOU-105
A 16-year old high school student, Dan, starts suffering from nightmares and frequent hallucinations, and he reveals he was hit in the
head while playing lacrosse at school. Dan is apparently suffering from
MS, and risky brain surgery is needed. Meanwhile House must deal
with a patient looking to set up a lawsuit and a mother who doesn’t
believe in vaccinations.
A family arrives at the clinic, claiming to have an appointment with House even though it’s a
walk-in clinic. They even have a letter that is supposedly from House, although House doesn’t
write letters. House realizes Dr. Cameron wrote the letter, but agrees to see the patient anyway.
Dan is a 16-year-old lacrosse player who has been suffering from double vision and night terrors.
House says that post-traumatic stress and sexual abuse are two common factors. Dan admits
he recently suffered a head injury during a game of lacrosse. House tells him to get glasses for
the double vision and to just deal with the night terrors until his concussion passes.
Later, as the kid and his family are leaving, House notices Dan’s foot twitching. House asks
him if he’s tired or is about to fall asleep. He isn’t. House says the myoclonic jerk is common
when a person is falling asleep. The body misinterprets the falling pulse as dying and jolts you
awake. He tells his staff to admit the boy right away.
Later, House bets Dr. Foreman that the dad isn’t Dan’s biological father, and they can’t rule
out genetic causes yet. That night, Dan has another horrifying night terror that House is cutting
his toe off. The night terror shows up on the polysonagraph. However, the tests give no explanation for the symptoms. The MRI shows that there is significant blockage, and a shunt is inserted
to relieve the pressure.
That night, Dan goes missing. After a search through the hospital, Cameron, Chase, and
Foreman find him on the roof. Dan thinks he’s on the lacrosse field. Right before be nearly walks
off the edge of the roof, Foreman tackles him. The next morning, Foreman explains the previous
night’s events to House, who realizes that Dan isn’t having night terrors - just hallucinations.
This rules out their previous theory of MS, but shows that Dan must have an infection in his
brain, like neurosyphillis.
Later, as penicillin is being injected into Dan’s brain, he hears voices in his head again. An
auditory hallucination disproves neurosyphillis. House later does a DNA test when he finds the
boy’s parents’ lunches in the hospital. He discovers that neither is the boy’s biological parents,
and that he was adopted as a baby. It turns out that his birth mother was not vaccinated. Dan
caught a basic measles virus from his mother that mutated and reappeared 16 years later in his
brain. He suggests injecting a needle into Dan’s eye to do a biopsy on his retina. The test results
show that he will need a dangerous brain surgery. However, the surgery is effective and Dan will
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recover. Dan later tells House that he knew that he was adopted ever since fifth grade, but never
told his parents.
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Occam’s Razor
Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired:
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Production Code:
Summary:
David Shore
Bryan Singer
Cameron)
Marco Pelaez (Hospital Pharmacist)
Kevin Zegers (Brandon Merrell), Faith Prince (Becky Merrell), Alexis
Thorpe (Mindy), Lauren Cohn (Jodi Matthews), Jason Stuart (Adam
Brown), Ben Campbell (Jerry Morris), John Kelly (Robert Marrell),
Joshua Wolf Coleman (Suburban Pharmacist), Beth Hall (Shelby Lever)
HOU-102
A college student collapses after rowdy sex with his girlfriend. While
House and his team attempt to determine the cause, the student’s
condition continues to deteriorate and his symptoms multiply complicating the diagnosis.
Brandon, a 22-year old male, passed out after having sex with his fiancée. He had been
complaining about a cough and a rash beforehand. Now he is suffering severe abdominal pain,
nausea, fever and low blood pressure.
A quick scan and exam reveal nothing, so House and team look for alternate answers. Dr.
Cameron points out that no condition accounts for this many symptoms. House realizes they
need to control the patient’s blood pressure first, and they run a core stem test and an EKG test
among others.
The tests don’t reveal much, but Dr. Foreman sees a result that signifies that the antibiotic
treatment is shutting down Brandon’s kidneys. Foreman theorizes that Brandon has a heart infection, not a stomach infection, which explains each symptom. Yet this is a 10 million to 1 shot.
House, looking at a list of Brandon’s symptoms, offers that two possible conditions combined –
a sinus infection and hypothyroidism – account for all of Brandon’s symptoms. And that’s only
a million to 1 shot. Since there’s no time to wait for test results, he wants to start treating the
sinus and thyroid immediately.
Foreman checks in on Brandon. The patient is feeling better but is still stuck with a cough.
Foreman reports that Brandon tested negative for hypothyroidism. He insists that it can’t be two
illnesses and House’s treatment regimen will only harm Brandon’s liver. It could even kill him.
House offers Foreman a $50 bet. If Brandon’s white blood count goes up, Foreman is correct in
presuming that he’s actually fighting off an infection.
Brandon’s white blood cell count drops. Both of their hypotheses were wrong. If Brandon gets
so much as a cold, his body won’t be able to fight it off and he will die. House has a revelation.
He asks Dr. Wilson which of Brandon’s symptoms came first. It was the coughing.
After a little research, House knows the answer. Brandon had visited a doctor for his cough
and his prescription for cough medicine was accidentally filled with gout medicine. That medicine
stops mytosis, the process in which cells divide and replace dead cells. This is not occurring,
which explains each of the symptoms. But Dr. Cameron points out that Brandon did improve,
but then worsen after checking into the hospital and stopping the gout medicine.
House meets with Brandon’s parents and demands to know who prescribed the cough medicine
which led to their son’s deterioration. His mother gave it to him. She produces the pill bottle,
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which validates House’s thinking. Chase and Brandon’s mother visit the pharmacy. Brandon
was indeed taking cough medicine and not gout medicine, disproving House’s theory. House is
incredibly annoyed that his elegant, thoughtful hypothesis wasn’t proven right.
Dr. Wilson suggests exploratory surgery to find out what’s in Brandon’s blood. During the prep
for surgery, Brandon’s heart stops beating and the doctors shock him back to life. Cameron tells
House about the surgery emergency and also mentions that Brandon is experiencing pain in his
fingers. House has another revelation. He barges into Brandon’s clean room and announces his
diagnosis of colchicine poisoning. The order of Brandon’s symptoms fits perfectly, which means
that Brandon is doing drugs. Brandon admits that he’s done ecstasy twice, which House notes
is cut with colchicine. A quick fix and Brandon will be just fine.
House is still not ready to give up his theory about the wrong cough medicine and is looking
through all the bottles in the hospital pharmacy. In the meantime, though Brandon is improving,
his cough still persists. When Cameron give him his cough pills he notices that they don’t have a
letter as the earlier pills had. At the same time we see a very relieved House who has plain cough
pills in one hand and the pills with the letter in the other.
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Maternity
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Peter Blake (IV)
Newton Thomas Sigel
Cameron)
Ever Carradine (Karen Hartig), Kenneth Choi (Dr. Lim), Benjamin Parrillo (Dr. Kubisak), Sam Trammell (Ethan Hartig) , Cress Williams
(Hospital Attorney), Dwight Armstrong (Charlie), Nate Torrence (Young
Man), Jocelyn Jackson (Young Woman), Hedy Burress (Jill), Melissa
Marsala (Lupino), Alexandra Bokyun Chun (Kim Chen), Madison
Bauer (Soap Patient), Marc Menard (Soap Doctor), Shawn Carter Peterson (Male Med Student), Donna Stearns (Volunteer)
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When a virus is spreading among the hospital, infecting six babies,
House and his team must make decisions that could compromise the
lives of the babies.
While in the hospital, the newborn Hartig daughter spits up and the mother is concerned
because the baby hasn’t eaten anything yet. The baby suffers a seizure. Later, a doctor who was
in the room recounts the incident to another doctor in the lounge. He discusses the baby’s bowel
obstruction. House overhears their chat and quickly leaves.
House presents Baby Hartig to his staff as Exhibit A. Exhibit B is Baby Hausen, another
newborn who is also ill. House thinks an infection is spreading throughout the hospital, but
Dr. Cuddy isn’t buying it. House tours his doctors in the maternity ward to check the twelve
newborns in the hospital. Nothing. But they do find one more baby upstairs with a sudden fever
and similar symptoms.
House and crew discuss three sick babies and the symptoms. With a spike in fever and low
blood pressure, these children could be dead in one day. The group thinks it might be a bacterial
infection. Since there’s no time to wait for test results, House orders the treatments to be started.
Each baby gets an MRI. Nothing shows up on the scan, so the doctors continue administering
two antibacterials. One of them starts causing the kidneys to shut down in two of the three
babies. But which one? House says there’s no point in guessing, so he takes Baby Hartig off the
Astrianam medication and Baby Chin-Lopino off the Vincomiacin.
Dr. Cuddy and a hospital lawyer refuse to allow House to change the treatments without
informing the parents. He pleads that this experiment will save at least six more babies, so
Cuddy gives him the green light. Later, the Chin-Lopino baby’s health begins to worsen with a
falling heartrate and blood pressure. The doctors rush in and try to shock the baby back to life,
but it dies. The Astrianam doesn’t work. House instructs his staff to cover the rest of the babies
with Vincomiacin.
Chase informs the team that the Vincomiacin isn’t working either as the Hartig baby is getting
worse. Perhaps it isn’t a bacterial infection. House performs an autopsy on Baby Chin-Lopino and
devises a theory that it’s a virus and not a bacteria that is affecting the babies’ hearts. Foreman
complains that it could be any one of a thousand different viruses. However, with the amount of
blood in the babies’ bodies, they can only run five or six tests. So House tries to narrow down
the list of possibilities, and ends up with eight. That is still too many with a limited amount of
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blood to be drawn. Chase gets to work. House also has Cuddy take blood from the one healthy
newborn in the hospital to use as a control group.
The sick babies all test positive for Echo virus 11, CMV and Parvo virus B19. The healthy
baby tested positive for Echo and CMV antibodies. House realizes that these infants still have
their mothers’ blood and immune systems, so he orders a test on the mothers to see what they
have antibodies for. Whatever the women are missing is what is killing their kids. After more
testing, the doctors settle on Echo virus 11. They have an experimental anti-virus in the hospital
and give it a shot.
Chase and Foreman bring good news to the Hartigs. Their baby is recovering. All of the babies
are recovering. That night, House is still obsessed with determining the person who was spreading the virus. He observes an elderly maternity ward volunteer coughing and wiping her nose as
she pushes around a cart of baby toys and stuffed animals, and puts the last piece in place.
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Damned If You Do
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Sara B. Cooper
Greg Yaitanes
Cameron)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Sister Mary Augustine), Lucinda Jenney (Sister
Mary Eucharist), Taji Coleman (Tech), James Symington (Priest),
Dakin Matthews (Marvin/Santa Claus Guy), Ann Dowd (Mother Superior), Lori Rom (Sister Mary Pius)
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A nun whose hands are red, swollen and cracked is sent to House. The
nun believes it is stigmata, but House suspects an allergic reaction. He
gives her some pills, which cause her to become unable to breathe. As
her condition worsens, her fellow sisters pray for her while House and
his team work to discover the cause of her illness while House has to
wonder if he misadministered the illness.
House’s new patient, Sister Augustine, has hands red with boils. While her fellow nuns suspect stigmata, House suspects dermatitis brought on by an allergic reaction to dish soap. He
gives her an antihistamine, suggests over-the-counter cortisone cream, and sends the good Sister on her way. Unfortunately, the antihistamine leaves Sister Augustine gasping for air. House
believes it is an asthma attack caused by an allergic reaction to the pill. He notices a rapid
heartbeat and calls for a nurse.
Dr. Cuddy is certain that House made a mistake and possibly gave the nun the wrong dosage.
Cuddy will have to notify hospital attorneys within 24 hours if House can’t find an underlying
cause for the heart failure. He runs his team through possible explanations. Cameron wonders if
it is a disease that gives patients only five years to live with treatment. Foreman goes the easier
route – House messed up.
Sister Augustine goes into MRI, but inside the tube she becomes frantic about a smell. The
doctors cancel the test and Sister Augustine screams that Jesus is coming for her. Suddenly, she
suffers convulsions. Foreman notices a rash appear on the Sister’s leg as he’s holding her down.
He finds out that the nun tested positive for herpetic encephalitis which causes a weakened
immune system. This same symptom can be triggered by the medicine House gave her earlier.
The group tries to figure out other possible causes.
Mixed connective tissue disease? The treatment for that disease is prednisone, which caused
these problems in the first place. House recommends a radical treatment - a hyperbaric oxygen
chamber. Foreman is concerned that will make things even worse. Foreman goes to Cuddy and
she becomes alarmed at the rash hyperbaric treatment. Cuddy pulls House off Sister Augustine’s
case.
Cuddy meets with Cameron, Foreman and Chase to discuss potential treatments. House,
meanwhile, asks Chase if Sister Augustine is hiding something. Chase suggests talking to the
Mother Superior and House pays a visit to the convent. The Mother Superior discusses Augustine’s troubled past as a foster child and the woman’s self-aborted pregnancy. That doesn’t
interest House, but the tasty tea that the convent serves does.
It is figwort tea, which when mixed with even the smallest level of epinephrine causes instant
cardiac arrest. House was correct all along. However, there is some allergy still lurking that has
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gone untreated for so long that it has manifested into a monster. House decides to introduce
various allergens until one causes a reaction. Sister Augustine is placed into a hypoallergenic
room but still goes into convulsions. The doctors are baffled. What in this sterile environment
could make a person react so violently?
Sister Augustine decides that God wants to take her, so she requests to go back to the convent.
House yells at her for constantly running away from her problems. Sister Augustine mentions
that she has God inside her, which gives House a revelation. Examining x- rays, the doctors find
a copper cross IUD inside Sister Augustine’s uterus. She is allergic to copper.
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The Socratic Method
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John Mankiewicz
Peter Medak
Cameron)
Stacy Edwards (Lucy Palmeiro), Aaron Himelstein (Luke Palmeiro),
John Prosky (Dr. Bergin), Sonya Eddy (Sally), Pat Musick (Trina Wyatt), Lilas Lane (Terri), Veronica Leigh (Wendy), C. Xavier Drayton (Male
Truant Officer)
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Dr. House is intrigued by the symptoms of a schizophrenic woman,
who displays mixed symptoms, including a tumor, but soon realizes
the source of her problems isn’t the obvious. House confronts his
birthday and Chase confronts his past when the mother’s son tries
to keep up with her condition.
A mother, Lucille Palmeiro, is hearing voices in her head. She feels a sharp pain in her leg,
which turns out to be a blood clot. At the same time, Lucille’s son, Luke, is working with a
disability counselor to keep his mother’s benefit checks coming in. She was diagnosed with
schizophrenia last year. The clot moves to the Lucille’s lungs and she collapses.
After Lucille is stabilized, a doctor explains her condition to Luke. The doctor is concerned
that Luke is giving his mother alcohol, which he claims calms her down. House, overhearing the
doctor’s lecture, takes an interest in the case.
Why did this 38-year old woman develop a deep vein thrombosis? Dr. Wilson thinks House’s
only attraction to the case is the schizophrenia. House claims otherwise and drops in on the patient, which shocks Foreman and Chase. During his visit, House learns that Lucille has tremors
which prevent her from shaving her legs. She must be bleeding more when she cuts herself.
House orders a round of blood work.
Foreman tries to draw blood, but Lucille resists, exclaiming that they’re going to steal it. She
has to be forcibly restrained. Luke is upset with House for giving his mother Haldol to knock
her out. She claims that Haldol makes her soul numb. That night, Lucille begins vomiting huge
amounts of blood.
House upbraids Foreman for the dose of Haldol. House wonders if a Vitamin K deficiency
explains the delay between the blood test and the vomiting. Foreman and Chase check the patient’s home for any unused ampicillin, which was prescribed earlier this year for a sore throat.
Foreman finds a strongbox filled with meds, including an untouched bottle of ampicillin. They
also find a freezer loaded with microwave burgers. Luke says that’s all she eats. House’s theory
about Vitamin K is becoming stronger.
Chase refuses to believe that the cause is merely a Vitamin K deficiency. He’s sticking with
alcohol as the cause. Chase and Cameron ultrasound Lucille’s liver and find cirrhosis and a
cancerous tumor. She needs a transplant because the tumor’s size is past surgical guidelines.
House suggests injecting ethanol into the tumor to temporarily shrink it so that the surgeon is
fooled.
The surgeon operates, but is angry about House falsely shrinking the tumor. Social Services
shows up to take Luke away. House starts to wonder if Lucille is actually crazy. That night,
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House accuses her of calling Social Services so that somebody will take care of her son. House
agrees with the call, but that is a sane decision made from self sacrifice, and that doesn’t fit in
with schizophrenia.
Late that night, House has a revelation and begins calling Lucille’s old doctors. They all hang
up on him because it’s so late. House thinks a specialist made an easy diagnosis. He gathers
his team to search for other explanations to her symptoms. Wilson’s disease is marked by high
copper levels in the body. That does explain the cirrhosis. Seeing that Lucille cancelled an eye
exam last year, they give her a quick test. The copper-colored rings around her corneas are a
dead giveaway. The doctors start treating her for Wilson’s disease.
Within a few days, a perfectly cogent Lucille is happily reunited with Luke. And House takes
the blame for the call to Social Services.
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Fidelity
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Thomas L. Moran
Bryan Spicer
Cameron)
Dominic Purcell (Ed Snow), Myndy Crist (Elyce Snow), Clementine
Shepherd-Ford (Samantha Campbell), Brennan Elliott (Adam), Henri
Lubatti (Head Chef), Endre Hules (Soup Chef), James Conkle (Young
Boy)
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Two men are out jogging – one of them returns back to his wife and
discovers her dead asleep and brings her to the clinic. The doctors are
puzzled by her symptoms. They consider everything from tumors to
breast cancer to rabbit fever. When all the treatments fail, House concludes she has African sleeping sickness. However, neither the woman
nor her husband could possibly have ever been to Africa. The woman
will die without the proper treatment, but neither one will admit to
having an affair.
After a morning romp with his wife, a man named Ed returned home to find his spouse sick
in bed. Elise has remained there for days. At the hospital, Cameron tells House that the patient
has been sleeping 18 hours a day, but the tests don’t reveal anything.
House and his team go through the possibilities – Depression? Parasites? House orders new
blood work and another MRI. After more testing, Elise is told that there is no answer to her
neurological problems. She goes into seizures.
House starts to suspect breast cancer. He also inquires about Elise’s relationship with her
husband. Cameron sets up a mammogram, and Elise reveals that her mother was about the
same age when she died of cancer. The new tests show no tumors. Wilson thinks it’s a small cell
tumor, which is hard to locate. House wants to ignore the tumor until it gets bigger. House sends
Foreman to Elise’s workplace at a restaurant. The chef is adamant that the kitchen is perfectly
clean.
Cameron is talking to Elise when she complains that her arm itches. Elise then sees her arm
burst open and hundreds of ants crawl out. She screeches for the doctors to get them off her. Yet
she is only hallucinating. Tests are still inconclusive. House believes that all of Elise’s symptoms
fit in with an African sleeping sickness. However, she has never been to Africa and never had a
transfusion.
Cameron, Foreman and Chase consider amongst themselves to start treatments anyway, but
each of those treatments would cause more problems. House then has a brainstorm. Anything
that’s in the blood can be transmitted through sex. He dispatches Foreman and Chase to ask Ed
and Elise about their fidelity. They both adamantly deny any affairs.
Elise drops into a coma. The doctors still have no explanation. Again, Ed claims he has not
had an affair. House tells Ed that he is going to give her a potentially fatal medicine and needs
his consent. If Ed suspects there might have even been one time Elise was unfaithful, then they
need to start treatment immediately. Foreman and Chase inject the dangerous medicine.
Elise’s fever rises to 104. Just as House is telling Ed that they should have seen an improvement, Elise comes out of her coma. House tells Elise that he must know who she had an affair
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with so that the man can be alerted and given treatment. Elise cries, knowing that Ed has left her.
Cameron tracks down Elise’s former lover, who has a young son. The lover is also Ed’s jogging
buddy– and best friend–from the beginning of the episode.
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Poison
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Matt Witten
Guy Ferland
Cameron)
Roxanne Hart (Margo Davis), John Patrick Amedori (Matt Davis),
Shirley Knight (Georgia Adams), Kurt Fuller (Mark Adams), McNally
Sagal (Mrs. Miller), Molly Mankiewicz (Blonde Woman), Christopher
Malpede (Math Whiz), Kenya D. Williamson (Nurse), Ulysses Lee (Chi
Ling), Jim Lau (Chou-Young Ling), Linda Wang (Jen Ling), Andy Milder
(Bus Driver)
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When a high school student falls victim to a mysterious but lethal poisoning, House and his team jump in to find out what is killing the teen.
Given a low heart rate and a clean tox screen, House sends Cameron
and Foreman to the teen’s home to find the hot new drug House is sure
he’s taking. They don’t find any drugs, but think they’ve come up with
the answers, until a second unrelated student is admitted with identical symptoms. With the boys’ lives hanging in the balance, House and
the team have to connect the dots – fast. Meanwhile, an 82-year-old
patient has become enamored with House while he helps her figure
out the basis of her renewed fascination with her sexual feelings.
A student named Matt begins sweating and grimacing during a test. He stands up and passes
out. His body goes into convulsions. Foreman presents the case to House. Matt has a severe case
of bradycardia, which means that his heart rate is falling fast. House thinks it’s simply drug use.
While Chase is examining the boy, he begins seizing again.
On House’s orders, Foreman and Cameron inspect Matt’s home for signs of drug use. They
turn up nothing, but Cameron does find a jar of tomato sauce with the lid popped. This could
indicate a bacterial infestation. House says the seizures rule out food borne toxins. Or drug use,
as Foreman points out. They suspect some sort of poison.
Matt is hooked up to an IV of pralidoxime. Chase tells the boy’s mother that the blood work
is conclusive that an organophosphate is causing Matt’s trouble. Suddenly, Matt’s heart rate
plummets. Chase puts zoll pads on Matt’s chest and their electricity brings his heart rate back
up.
The doctors are stumped. Foreman mentions an experimental treatment that should work,
but they need to know the exact poison. Foreman and Cameron go back to the kid’s house to
see what kind of pesticides might be used on the tomato garden. Cameron finds an empty can
of disulfoton. Chase prepares an injection of disulfoton hydrolase, but Matt’s mother insists he
only used orange peel oil on the garden. He dumped the disulfoton out because he couldn’t use
pesticides in his environmental science class. Since the hydrolase would increase the toxicity if
they’re wrong, Mom begs Chase not to inject her son.
Cuddy tells House that he will need to get the mother to sign off on rejection of the treatment.
He changes the legal language to be slightly more condescending when reading it to her. Mom
changes her position. But before they can start Matt on the hydrolase, another patient named
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Chi is admitted with identical symptoms. Although the two have never had any contact, they do
go to the same school.
Chase and Cameron inspect the school bus that Matt and Chi both rode that morning. The
driver noticed a truck spraying near a pond. The country had been spraying ethyl-parathion to
fight West Nile virus. There is a hydrolase for that, but Matt’s mother refuses all treatments until
she hears from the Centers for Disease Control. Cameron is sent in to talk to her, and she still
refuses until an angry Cameron lays it out for her. Mom finally relents.
They administer the hydrolase. Later, both boys go into convulsions. The doctors save them,
but the boys are left in terrible shape. It wasn’t ethyl-parathion. They were poisoned in the
morning at home. What’s the answer? The lanolin in acne cream or deodorant? Foreman and
Cameron head out on another inspection. They find a 128-ounce bottle of TKO detergent in each
house. But Chi’s mom says her son wore all-new clothes today that had never been washed.
House and Chase salvage Chi’s and Matt’s clothes from the trash and run tests on them. They
test positive for phosdrin. Time for another hydrolase.
Matt’s Mom again rejects treatment until she hears from the CDC. House visits her once
again. But instead of merely talking, he decides to just sit in the room with the medicine to
pressure Mom. As House predicted, the CDC claims they can’t diagnose simply by records. The
mother agrees to the third hydrolase. Yet Chase had called her using a fake accent to tell her
that the CDC had no opinion. The third time is indeed the charm, as Matt and Chi both recover.
Foreman learns that somebody was selling pants out of the back of his truck. The person’s
second job was at a cornfield. Some pesticide was spilled on the pants, which weren’t washed.
The boys were poisoned that way.
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DNR
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David Foster
Fred Keller
Cameron)
Brandy Norwood (Herself), Harry J. Lennix (John Henry Giles), Chloe
Webb (Cora), Clint Baker (Tommy), David Conrad (Marty Hamilton),
Mike Starr (Willie), Richard Sinclair (Doctor), Courtney Henggeler
(Server), Victor Raider-Wexler (Judge Winter), Rif Hutton (Morris),
Michael Oberlander (Ross), Dennis Howard (Chaplain)
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Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles is checked into the hospital
and when he’s told he’s dying from ALS, he signs a DNR to avoid a slow
death. House disagrees with the diagnosis and goes against everyone’s
wishes when he violates the DNR to save Giles’ life. The decision lands
House in court, drives Foreman to consider taking another job, and
results in Giles’ paralysis worsening. But when the patient inexplicably
starts getting better, the team has to figure out the mystery in reverse
and find out why his condition is improving. Meanwhile, Dr. Foreman
meets with an old friend who offers him a West Coast partnership.
A famous but wheelchair-bound jazz musician, John Henry Giles, is at a gig. By mid-session
he collapses due to lack of oxygen. Later at the clinic House is intrigued with the fact that Henry
has been paralyzed for two years without anybody finding an explanation.
The team starts looking for explanations. Henry’s primary doctor, Hamilton, already diagnosed
ALS, but House doesn’t buy this. He talks Foreman into administering IVIG, which later causes
Giles to crash. Just as Chase wants to intubate Foreman mentions that the patient has signed a
”Do Not Resuscitate” form, but House doesn’t give anything about it and intubates anyway.
House is sued for battery. Cuddy supports him in this case telling him that she expected
$50.000 per year just for lawyers when she signed him. Foreman on the other hand calls in Dr.
Hamilton, who flies in from Los Angeles.
House wins the case with a judicial dodge and wants Chase and Cameron to administer cytoxan, which treats Wegener’s disease - a shot in the dark. If he’s wrong, Chase and Cameron
could lose their medical licenses. Chase checks on the lung biopsy, but only sees an inflammation.
Dr. Hamilton finally shows up and tells House that he wants to pull the plug. House tells
Hamilton that Henry won’t be able to breathe if it is Wegener’s. Hamilton says that his tests for
Wegener’s came up negative, so he turns off life support. Henry breathes on his own - it’s not
Wegener’s. However, Henry’s arm is paralyzed now as well. Another sign for ALS? House doesn’t
think so and talks Henry into taking an MRI, which shows that Henry actually had a stroke.
They go in for brain surgery and succeed in restoring his arm. The doctors are baffled, however,
when Henry claims to be able to move his legs again.
Meanwhile Hamilton (who is his old friend) offers Foreman a job that pays three times as
much. As he mentions the offer to Chase and Cameron they tell him that they are not in it for
the money and they also don’t hate House like Foreman does.
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House has an idea how to find out which medication helped Henry. He wants to take him off
the dozen drugs he’s currently getting, then restart the dosage one by one.
Later Hamilton asks House which medication Henry was being treated with, because the
patient’s condition is worsening. House re- prescribes steroids and a second MRI. During the
MRI Foreman and House discuss their working relationship. House tells Foreman to work for
who he thinks is the better doctor, House or Hamilton.
The MRI results surprise everybody because they show that Henry is suffering from Arteriovenous Malformation, which was compressing his spine and ultimately causing the paralysis.
Foreman wonders how Hamilton could have missed something that simple, but House points out
that they all did. He thinks that something disguised it on the MRI.
They realize that it was the inflammation they originally saw on the MRI. The steroids treated
the inflammation which allowed them to detect the AVM. They succeed in removing the AVM
during a surgery and John Henry Giles walks out of the hospital without his wheelchair.
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Histories
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Joel Thompson
Daniel Attias
Cameron)
Paul Sklar (Cop #2), Smith Cho (Julia), Leslie Hope (Victoria Madsen),
Ogy Durham (Chris), Charles C. Stevenson Jr. (Walter), Troy Robinson (Cop #1), Patty Onagan (Girlfriend), Tomiko Martinez (Tall Girl),
Brandon Brocato (Phil), Bonnie Perlman (Mom), Farrah Skyler Greye
(Nurse), Suzanne Ford (Mrs. Whitney), Kevin Moon (EMT), Larry Clarke
(Officer Gilmar), Leslie Karpman (Jodi)
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Dr. Foreman believes an uncooperative homeless woman is faking
seizures to get a meal ticket at the teaching hospital. But her homelessness strikes a personal chord with Dr. Wilson and he grows determined to keep her from falling between the cracks. Her worsening
symptoms prove to be a complex mystery for House and his team,
but the mystery of her identity and medical history may hold the answers to saving her life. Just as the team suspects she has contagious
meningitis, the woman goes missing, only to be tasered by the police,
who bring her back. But House deduces the taser may have proven yet
another diagnosis, with dire results. Meanwhile, House has an audience of two medical students who are learning how to do case studies.
A woman is desperate to score some drugs. She heads to a house rave to get her fix, but
doesn’t have the $20 to get in. She begs to be allowed in to see her dealer, James. Once inside,
the cops bust the party and the woman freaks out.
Wilson sums up her case for Foreman. A homeless woman was admitted with a suspected
overdose. She has no ID and doesn’t seem to know her name. She’s got lesions on her skin
and a twitchy wrist. Foreman is not happy to be handed this case. When the women seizes,
he is skeptical that she’s not merely acting. Foreman inspects her purse for insulin, suspecting
diabetes.
Wilson goes to House for a second opinion. Foreman refuses to back down. House is more
interested in who this woman is and her history. The next day, Chase sees the woman drawing
and asks, ”Who’s James?” She freaks out and bites Foreman when he tries to help, drawing
blood. Foreman bucks the rules to get the patient into an immediate MRI, using another person’s
name and appointment time. Cuddy shuts the MRI down before they can proceed because a CT
scan shows that the patient has a surgical pin in her arm. The MRI would’ve ripped it out of her
body. They can’t proceed until they know who this woman is.
Using one of the woman’s sketches as a clue, Foreman checks out a neighborhood. A homeless
man directs him to a box where she lived. Foreman finds the box infested with bats. He also finds
more sketches.
House removes the surgical pin and runs the serial number on it to learn that the patient
broke her arm in a car accident on October 2, 2002. House confesses that he only wanted the
MRI so he’d have an excuse to take out the surgical pin. The patient’s name is Victoria Matson.
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Foreman checks out Victoria’s blood work and realizes that she’s allergic to iron dextran, which
they were administering to treat low magnesium and electrolytes. They find Victoria in respiratory
arrest due to the allergic reaction, but the doctors are able to save her.
Cameron has various records for Victoria Matson from area hospitals. There is nothing alarming, except for one ultrasound performed and one ultrasound appointment cancelled. Wilson suspects that doctors were looking for ovarian cancer. House orders an ultrasound of her ovaries.
The test indeed shows cancer. House wonders if it’s a tuberculoma mass, admitting that it’s a
long shot. He instructs his charge to start Victoria on INH, rifampin and streptomycin to treat
tuberculoma.
Foreman tries to give Victoria some antibiotics, and inquires about James. She has another
fit. Victoria now thinks the sunlight is burning her and that the water they gave her is poison.
Foreman sedates her, reporting to House that she has a fever of 105. It can’t be tuberculoma,
because the treatment isn’t working. Chase has the lab report from Victoria’s biopsy. It is tuberculoma. House is confused why he was right about the diagnosis but its treatment is killing
Victoria.
The team sets off to figure out what else Victoria has that would cause this reaction. If it’s
bacterial infection, then they would need to order a blood and urine test, plus a chest X-ray. The
doctors also put her on an ice bath to fight the fever. The tests show nothing significant. House’s
crew suspects meningitis, but when they go to Victoria’s room she is gone. Yet she drew a comic
strip on the wall depicting a superhero who is searching for James. After a time, paramedics
bring a semi-conscious Victoria into the hospital. Her heart is racing.
House realizes that Victoria’s heart was racing because a cop tasered her. However, she didn’t
feel it hit her thigh because she has no sensitivity there. He takes a needle and pokes Foreman
in the wrist where Victoria bit him earlier. He doesn’t feel it either. Finally, Houses knows that
it is rabies that has been afflicting Victoria. Although it is incredibly rare, a homeless person
wouldn’t get shots after being bitten. The bats in Victoria’s cardboard box are the most likely
culprit. Unfortunately, it’s too late for treatment and Victoria will die in the next day or two.
Foreman, meanwhile, gets a shot in the gut to treat his rabies and then sets out to find
the mysterious James. Foreman and Wilson head to the rave party house, and using more of
Victoria’s sketches as a guide, find a strongbox that contains photos of a normal Victoria looking
happy with some man. They also find a marriage certificate for Victoria and a man named Paul,
as well as a birth certificate for James, her son. They dig up a newspaper clipping about the car
crash in which Victoria broke her arm. Paul and James were killed in the wreck where she was
driving.
Foreman goes to Victoria’s bedside, claiming to be Paul. He tells her that he’s come to forgive
her for the accident. In her stupor, she believes him and tearfully apologizes.
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Detox
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Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran
Nelson McCormick
Cameron)
Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist)
Akiko Morison (Anesthesiologist), Maurice Godin (Dr. Hourani),
Amanda Seyfried (Pam), Nicholas D’Agosto (Keith Foster), America
Olivo (Ingrid), Mark Harelik (Mr. Foster)
HOU-112
While trying to figure out why a young patient won’t stop bleeding after
a car wreck, House takes Cuddy’s challenge and goes off Vicodin for
a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his
team can’t determine the source of his patient’s blood loss, the 16year-old car victim will die in a matter of days. As House’s withdrawal
symptoms become more and more severe, his patient directives for
his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, and Foreman and
Cameron are afraid he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the
patient’s life.
A teenage couple decides to go for a drive in his dad’s Porsche. The boy, named Keith, begins
choking and coughing up blood. Distracted, the girl spins the car out and they are broadsided
by a bus.
Cameron presents the case: the 16-year old victim of M.V.A. has been in an out of the hospital
with internal bleeding for three weeks. House attributes it to the car crash, but Cameron says
the bleeding started before the crash. House is more interested in getting his Vicodin prescription
refilled but the pharmacy is empty. Cuddy sees House popping more Vicodin and challenges him
to quit his addiction. He says he takes it to treat the pain, so she offers a month free from clinic
duty if he goes a week without pills.
Cameron mentions that the victim has non-inherited hemolytic anemia, which is incredibly
rare. House dismisses it as meningitis, but that’s not it either. He calls his group together and
tells them they have to figure out why the patient’s red blood cells are supplying oxygen to the
body. House instructs them to run tests for an infection, as well as Lupus, drug use and cancer.
In talking to the patient’s father, Cameron learns that Keith’s girlfriend was formerly in rehab
and that his mother died of pancreatic cancer. The radioimmunoassay test is negative on drug
use. A Gallium scan shows no infection and a radioactive isotope injected into the bloodstream
shows no inflammation. The Lupus test comes up negative as well. Wilson performs a biopsy to
check for lymphoma, but that too is wrong.
While the doctors mull other possibilities, Keith complains that he has something in his eye.
The doctors find nothing, but Keith still can’t see. Foreman observes a retinal clot. However, any
treatment for the clot would kill him because of his low blood flow. They have two hours to save
either his eye or his life. House asks his team how something could be causing both internal
bleeding and clotting. Infection causes clotting, so what would be hiding from the Gallium scan?
It must be a cardiac clot that flicks off and travels to the eye.
Chase performs an echocardiogram on Keith’s heart, but begrudgingly admits that they are
not going to treat his eye. The blindness will become permanent. Chase later tells House that the
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test showed no cardiac infection. House has him up the antibiotics. Chase thinks he can remove
some liquid from the eye itself to make room for the clot to move out on its own. Chase leaves
and House backs against a wall. He’s in tremendous pain.
With a needle, Chase removes some vitreous humor from the eye which helps Keith see again.
After the procedure, Keith’s girlfriend comes in and kisses him. He vomits. The doctors rush him
to the ICU. His liver is shutting down and he is dying. Keith’s father is enraged. Cameron asks
House if proving Cuddy wrong is worth all of this.
The team wonders what would cause liver damage. Hemolytic anemia is ruled out. House
suggests hepatitis-E, even though Lupus is more likely. House thinks they need to rule out hepE because it has no treatment, so he instructs the group to give Keith mendrol, which will react
with the hep-E to make him worse. If not, they’ll know that Lupus is the cause. Outside, Foreman
tells Cameron that House is detoxing from Vicodin and is losing his mind. In his office, House
sweats in pain.
Cameron tells Keith’s father that she believes his son is afflicted with Lupus. To distract
himself from the pain, House smashes himself with a paperweight and breaks a bone in his
hand. As Cameron is treating him, Cuddy demands to know why House had Cameron lie. Now
Keith’s father wants his son either treated for Lupus or transferred. But when Cameron tells him
that Keith is too weak to be moved, he relents.
Chase and Cameron prepare to begin the treatment and Keith starts to hallucinate. Cameron
notices that Keith is bleeding profusely from the rectum and is going into hypovolemic shock. An
angiography later reveals major internal bleeding, severe hemodynamic compromise and complete liver failure. Cameron says that hallucinations are from psychosis, which proves that Lupus is the cause. She’s angry that they had to dally with hep-E because Keith needs a new liver.
House still thinks Lupus is the wrong diagnosis, but he asks for Keith to be moved to the top of
transplant list anyway.
In his office, House vomits from the pain. Foreman comes in with a bottle of Vicodin so that
he can recover to treat Keith. Cameron and Chase break it to Keith’s father that the Lupus is
too advanced to treat and the transplant list has over 15,000 patients. House is still pondering
who the ”Jules” is that Keith yelled out during his hallucination. Keith’s father informs them that
Jules is their cat who died about a month ago. The girlfriend says that Jules slept in the bed
with Keith.
Foreman and Chase exhume the cat. House does an autopsy. At the same time, an emergency
liver comes in. Keith is taken into the OR and is prepped. Houses rushes in to stop the surgery,
announcing that Keith doesn’t have lupoid Hepatitis. He has acute naphthalene toxicity from
termites. Termites create the toxin to protect their nests, and judging from the contents of Jules’
stomach, Keith’s bedroom was also infested with termites. The surgeon refuses to stop, so House
spits on him to spread germs everywhere.
In the hallway, the group refuses to believe House’s new diagnosis. If it was environmental,
Keith would have improved in the hospital. But House explains that naphthalene is fat soluble.
Keith was repulsed by the hospital food and hadn’t eaten much, so his body started burning fat
and the poison poured into his system. Keith’s father punches House in the face. House promises
that 24 hours of calorie intake will heal Keith. If they do the surgery, it won’t solve anything.
Foreman and Chase hammer open a wall in Keith’s home bedroom. Termites pour out. House
was right. Back at the hospital, Keith is rapidly improving. And House made it through the week
without any pills. He comes to the realization that he’s addicted, but since he is functioning he’ll
just keep taking the drugs. Wilson yells at him for changing in the last few years and becoming
miserable. He’s using his leg and the drugs as an excuse.
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Sports Medicine
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John Mankiewicz, David Shore
Keith Gordon
Cameron)
Scott Foley (Hank Wiggen), Bryan Singer (Himself), Meredith Monroe
(Lola), Art LaFleur (Warner Fitch), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Sharon),
Deirdre M. Smith (Carol Moffatt), Timothy McNeil (Patient #2), Sean
Everett (Patient #4), Richard Swaidan (College Student)
HOU-109
A severely broken arm reveals a bizarre case of bone loss and ends the
comeback plans of major league pitcher Hank Wiggen. House suspects
Hank – with a history of drug abuse – is lying about using steroids, as
his condition worsens. When Hank’s kidneys start to fail, his wife offers to donate hers, but she would have to abort her early pregnancy.
Forced into an impossible solution, and admitting failure as an addict, Hank tries to take his own life. House and his team must isolate
and fix the problem soon if this pitcher’s life, as well his career, can
be saved. Meanwhile, Foreman dates a pharmaceutical representative
and House is stuck with two tickets and ends up going on a ”date”
with Cameron. . . to a monster truck rally.
Baseball player Hank Wiggen is making an anti-drug commercial and notes he himself has
taken drunks. But when Wiggen winds up for a pitch, his right arm snaps and he collapses in
pain.
At the clinic, Hank is undergoing treatment and the diagnosis is osteopedy – thinness of the
bones. Wilson can’t figure it out and calls in House, since Hank’s body won’t withstand the
treatment he needs to pitch.. Meanwhile Foreman is going to bed with Sharon, a pharmaceutical
representative. When he arrives late (with a ”my car broke down” excuse), in the conference room
they determine he’s having kidney problems as well. Foreman suspects steroids and everyone
agrees, but Hank denies steroid use and refuses a urine test – his girlfriend Lola backs him up,
but Chase gets it anyway.
Cameron is going to an oncology dinner on Friday that Wilson is at. The steroid test turns
negative, but House doesn’t believe him. He puts Wiggen on lupra, but he goes into respiratory
arrest, indicating he has some other problem. The team suspect Addison’s disease, which requires... steroid treatment, which will hurt his kidneys. House confronts Hank who eventually
admits that his pitching coach, Warren, gave him something to increase muscle. House asks
Cuddy to put Hank on the kidney-transplant list but she turns him down.
Wiggen’s girlfriend Lola offers her own kidney while Foreman tries to get out of the oncology
dinner. House reveals he’s gotten tickets... for a monster truck jam. But Wilson turns him down.
House reveals to Lola that she’s pregnant, and can’t donate her kidney. She considers an abortion
so she can donate, against Hank’s wishes. House ends up asking Cameron to the monster truck
jam, and she agrees... after revealing Wilson cancelled his speech a couple of weeks ago.
Wiggen’s potassium level is up, putting him into cardiac arrest and eliminating the possibility
of Addison’s and the necessity of the transplant. They manage to stabilize him but then Wiggen
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starts hallucinating. They conclude Wiggen is taking digitalis, which accounts for the current
symptoms – House figures out Hank got them from his coach, who has a heart condition and
takes digitalis, and stole them to commit suicide. House orders them to continue with the transplant based on his original diagnosis before the digitalis symptoms, but Hank refuses and the
Addison treatment continues. Hank accidentally spills his urine bag on House.
House confronts Wilson over his lie and Wilson admits he’s meeting with an old friend, Stacy,
a Constitutional lawyer who was involved with House in the past. House says its okay then meets
with Lola and notices she doesn’t smell the urine on him. House and the others meet with Sharon
and he figures out Foreman is secretly dating her. Then he reveals that Lola can’t smell because
of an overdose of cadmium, which they got from taking cadmium-laced marijuana. Lola had quit
(but not before losing her sense of smell) but Hank was taking it for the pain and lying about it.
Lola’s baby is safe and House lies on the medical report so Hank can continue playing baseball.
Hank recovers, and House and Cameron have a great time at the monster truck jam.
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Cursed
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Matt Witten, Peter Blake (IV)
Daniel Sackheim
Cameron)
David Henrie (Tommy), Tracy Middendorf (Sarah Rilek), Nestor Carbonell (Jeffrey Rilek), R.J. Root (Sam), Jack Walsh (Ozzy), Alejandro
Patino (Cabbie), Abbey McBride (Blonde), Dennis Bendersky (Davey),
Daryl Sabara (Gabriel Rilek), Patrick Bauchau (Dr. Rowan Chase)
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A 12-year-old boy believes he’s cursed after a Ouija board tells him
he’s going to die, and his father makes increasing demands on House
as they try to diagnose the boy’s pneumonia-like symptoms and incongruous rash. Meanwhile, Chase’s estranged father, a renowned doctor
from Australia, visits and House invites him to sit in, much to Chase’s
discomfort. When House diagnoses the boy’s illnees, the young patient is forced to face the idea that his father may not be everything he
believes.
In a dusty attic, a young boy, Gabriel trips as he gets together with some other boys for a
club. They start playing with an Ouija board and when asked who will die in a year, it ”spells”
out Gabe’s name. A week or so later, Gabe comes down with a fever then collapses. He’s taken to
the clinic where House suspects pneumonia, particularly since Gabe’s parents are major donors
to the clinic. Signs of a rash suggest something else and they suspect ticks or any sexual activity.
It soon becomes clear that the father is a bit of a control freak and the parents are separated.
Chase starts to bond with the boy and then his father Rowan arrives and it’s clear they have
issues.
Chase goes to the house to take a sample but has to make his escape when the cops arrive.
The insulation samples show animal hair and cotton, and a CT scan shows the boy apparently
has naturally occurring anthrax. The father, Jeffrey, soon starts dictating treatment but Gabriel’s
airway starts closing up and the team inserts a tube to keep him breathing and Foreman manages to get a tube in. The team suspects an allergy but it would have to be to two different
antibodies. House asks Chase’s father to step in and they agree it’s not anthrax and come up
with a diagnosis of sardecosis (sic). But before they can apply treatment, Chase notices narcosis
(blackening of the rash), suggesting they have sardecosis and anthrax. House agrees and they
apply treatment to both, but then Gabe breaks out in serious lesion across his back.
When Chase bows out, House takes the team to him during a consultation. House agrees with
Chase Sr.’s analysis, much to Chase’s dismay. When they go ahead with Chase Sr.’s treatment,
Chase argues he’s wrong and they get into a fight over Chase Sr. leaving and his wife/Chase’s
mother dying after a long bout with alcoholism. House figures out Chase Sr. is making an excuse
to meet with Chase, and that he’s suffering from lung cancer and will die in three months.
Meanwhile, Gabe’s right hand and arm is paralyzed as his condition continues to deteriorate.
Chase Sr. concedes his son may have been right and they order a MRT which turns up
negative on neural fibertosis – Chase’s diagnosis. House figures Gabe’s dad was in southeast
Asia, despite his denials, and was seeing a guru rather then a test pilot like he told his son.
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House concludes it’s leprosy and the dad has it – it’s just slower in him. The leprosy made Gabe
vulnerable to the anthrax and then the antibiotics made his condition worse, attacking his fat
cells and causing the lesions. Both the boy and his father receive treatment and improve.
When Gabe is disappointed over his father’s lies, Chase consoles him and then meets with his
own father and they exchange a hug, but Chase is none the wiser that his father is dying.
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Control
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Lawrence Kaplow
Randall Zisk
Cameron)
Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson), Chi McBride (Edward Vogler)
Sheila Cavalette (Anesthesiologist), Joshua Miller (Ricky), Andrew
Borba (Mr. Van Der Meer), Sunny Mabrey (Jenny), David Joyner (Cardiac Surgeon #2), David Castellani (Boardmember #2), Vivian Bang
(Robin), Sarah Clarke (Carly Forlano), Dar Dixon (Don)
HOU-114
Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler spends $100 million on the
clinic and becomes the new Chairman of the Board. As a businessman, Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his
biotech venture and plans to eliminate the financially draining services
of Dr. House. Meanwhile, a businesswoman who has it all – perfect life,
perfect body, perfect job – finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When
he diagnoses her secret, House must risk his job and his medical license to get her a necessary transplant.
A businesswoman, Carly, is planning a business acquisition in Asia when her leg is paralyzed
and she calls an abrupt end to the meeting. She comes to the clinic for treatment while Cuddy
announces their new chairman of the board, Edmund Vogler, who has donated $100 million to
the clinic. Vogler is big on running the clinic as a business, and naturally House catches his
attention. House is equally skeptical, believing Vogler plans on using the clinic for experimentation.
The tests on Carly prove negative but she is in incredible pain. Cameron, trying out new
management techniques, suspects cancer. While they test Carly further, House is intrigued by
the father of a patient who is rendered mute after knee surgery and received a large settlement
from the clinic. Wilson determines Carly doesn’t have cancer in her leg but suspects colon surgery
via transferred pain, but she refuses to be invasively tested. Wilson comes up with a virtual
diagnosis but that comes up clean as well. When House rechecks her angio test, he discovers
her toes are backward – in other words Chase screwed up, as he was flirting with the radiologist
at the time. As Forman administers a new angio, Carly goes into respiratory arrest as her lungs
fill with fluid. They drain off the fluid, while House concludes she’s ashamed of something.
House concludes she needs a heart transplant but can’t reveal anything to Wilson as he’s on
the transplant committee. Unfortunately Chase and Cameron come to the same conclusion and
reveal she needs the transplant.
Vogler is skeptical of the diagnosis department, which is consuming three million a year and
only curing one patient a week. House confronts Carly, noting she is bulimic and using ipecac,
which is causing the muscle and heart damage. He can’t reveal to the upcoming transplant
board meeting that she’s bulimic, as it would disqualify her from receiving the transplant. Carly
reluctantly admits she doesn’t want to die and House resolves to lie for her. Cuddy is skeptical
of House’s story to the board and gets tough on him since Vogler suspects her prior involvement
with House (!) might be messing with her judgment. House continues to stick to his story and
she gets the transplant.
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Even the staff are skeptical of House’s story, and Chase discovers that Carly was taking
ipecac. Cameron comes clean admitting she’s been manipulating people out of concerns they
like her but don’t respect her, and House claims he doesn’t like her. Carly’s surgery goes well,
and House confronts the mute patient whom he believes he cured with a botox injection. The
patient won’t concede he can speak because he’ll lose the money he got in the settlement, but
House agrees to cover his secret. House shares a moment with Carly and then Vogler finally
meets with House. Vogler knows about the ipecac but House denies it – he has tenure and for
the moment they’re stuck with it.
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Mob Rules
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David Foster, John Mankiewicz
Tim Hunter
Cameron)
Chi McBride (Edward Vogler)
David Burke (Everhardt), Danny Nucci (Bill Arnello), Joseph Lyle Taylor (Joey Arnello), Greg Collins (Marshal Brady) , Ingrid Sanai Buron
(Kimberly), A.J. Trauth (Henry)
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Just before mobster Joey Arnello spills the beans in federal court and
enters witness protection, he collapses. Is he faking? A court order
instructs House to find out – and fast. House and his team struggle to
diagnose and cure Joey while Joey’s brother Bill tries to slow things
down and keep Joey from testifying. Meanwhile, Cuddy struggles to
convince Vogler that House is an essential part of the hospital.
A mobster, Joey Arnello, and his brother and lawyer, Bill, are being protected by the Federal
government as a witness when Joey has an attack of some sort and goes into a coma. House
is given a warrant to check on Arnello, and all the initial tests prove negative. Bill wants House
to stall for time so he can convince his brother not to go through with the testimony. Joey
inexplicably revives but House doesn’t want him to be released despite his staff’s belief the
problem is resolved. Vogler has Joey released since he’s not making money, but he’s brought
in two hours later, back in a coma.
Tests show hepatitis-c but it doesn’t account for the sudden onset of symptoms. House lets
Chase run with it and takes Forman off the case to make Vogler thinks that he thinks Forman
ratted him out to the transplant committee (in ”Control”). Bill isn’t happy with Chase’s diagnosis
of hepatitis and forbids him to treat Joey for it. Meanwhile, Vogler is insistent on finding a reason
to get rid of House, much to Cuddy’s dismay.
House confirms that Joey was raped in prison, which is why Bill doesn’t want him treated for
hepatitis – House agrees to cover with a second set of fake records and gets a new car in return.
House’s biopsy confirms he doesn’t have hepatitis and suggests Joey was poisoned. They run
Joey’s blood through a pig to filter it and buy them time to figure out the poison – a Chinese
herb in his candy that reacts with the interferon. House decides to shape up, putting on a lab
coat and everything, and says they can release Joey. But Joey goes back into a coma, even worse
then before.
They try an experimental treatment with little chance of success while House determines that
it’s not a poison affecting Joey but an allergy to steak – Bill snuck in a meal to Joey at the
hospital. It doesn’t explain the elevated estrogen levels, but the fact that Joey is taking a herbal
aphrodisiac for gay men that contains estrogen. Bill is forced to admit the truth rather then have
his brother die. Joey testified so he could go into witness protection and get a new life. The two
brothers come to an understanding of sorts while Cuddy reveals Vogler wanted House fired and
she managed to buy him some time. But she warns that some things are going to change – he
has to do six more clinic hours a month... and fire one of his staff.
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Heavy
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Thomas L. Moran
Fred Gerber
Cameron)
Chi McBride (Edward Vogler)
Rose Colasanti (Cashier), Cynthia Ettinger (Mrs. Simms), Ramón
Franco (I) (Mr. Hernandez), Karen Goberman (Mrs. Ayers), Teddy Lane
Jr. (Mr. Conroy), Susan Slome (Mrs. Lucille Hernandez), Jennifer Stone
(Jessica Simms), Alyson Morgan (Clementine), Austin Leisle (Seth),
Alec George (Classmate #1), DJ Evans (Classmate #2), Bryan Fabian
(Classmate #3)
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House must fire one of his doctors and leaves them to think about it
while they deal with an overweight 10-year old child who suffered a
heart attack as the result of taking diet pills. House is also faced with
a woman who won’t accept surgery for a 30 lb. tumor because she
wants to remain overweight.
A 10-year old girl, Jessica, is at home and not feeling well as she’s going off to school. That day
while exercising she complains of chest pains and collapses. As House is forced to decide which
of his staff members he will fire, Jessica’s case is referred to him and he’s intrigued. They begun
to run tests as House drops the news to his staff, and Jessica’s mother disputes that Jessica’s
weight is the issue. Meanwhile House meets with an overweight woman, Lucille, suffering from
heartburn who refuses to believe she’s pregnant despite House’s claims.
Jessica begins to turn irrational during testing as she apparently becomes hypoglycemic and
the doctors are forced to sedate her. The lab tests prove negative for hypoglycemia and they
suspect she may be taking diet pills. Meanwhile Vogler starts playing a few games of his own with
House’s staff to find out what they’re thinking. And it turns out Lucille has a benign 30 lb. tumor
but she refuses surgery believing it will make her ugly to her husband. Forman investigates
Jessica’s background and finds she has no friends but was apparently taking diet pills. Jessica
admits she was taking the pills and they conclude they’re responsible, but then Jessica starts
bleeding from necrosis on her chest.
House suspects she’s reacting to a drug and all but accuses Cameron and Chase of giving
Jessica the wrong drug. That sets off another round of in-fighting and Vogler shoots down House’s
idea to keep everyone and cut the staff’s pay. Lucille’s husband expresses his concern and wants
House to lie to her that it’s cancer so she’ll undergo surgery. Jessica’s necrosis is spreading and
they recommend amputation of the breasts – a radical mastectomy. They plan to wait as long as
possible but otherwise have no choice.
House confronts Lucille, and he’s deduced she’s sleeping with other men – thus her reluctance
to undergo the surgery. Chase meets with Vogler who points out how precarious Chase’s position
is if he finds someone else to feed him info on House. As they prepare Jessica for surgery, House
deduces that her obesity is a symptom – along with her height (shorter then her parents), he
concludes it’s Cushing’s, which causes hyper-cortisone levels that account for her symptoms.
They use a MRI to locate the hyper-cortisonism. They find a tumor on the pituitary gland that
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accounts for the symptoms. Using surgery, they successfully remove Jessica’s tumor and she
starts losing weight.
House goes to Vogler with his decision – he’s firing Chase. However, Vogler refuses to let him
fire Chase and tells him to pick someone else... or it’ll be the whole department that is fired.
We’re left with Cameron writing up her resume and everyone pondering the situation.
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Role Model
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Matt Witten
Peter O’Fallon
Cameron)
Chi McBride (Edward Vogler), Bobbin Bergstrom (ICU Nurse)
Joe Morton (Senator Gary H. Wright), Missy Crider (Susan), Elizabeth Karr (Hostess), Dominic Oliver (Reynolds), Sahar Bibiyan (Clinic
Nurse)
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At a high-level campaign fundraiser, a senator becomes violently ill.
Vogler forces House to take the senator’s case and offers to let off the
hook on firing a team member if he’ll deliver a speech on behalf of
Vogler’s pharmaceutical company. It looks like the senator has AIDS
but House refuses to settle for the easy answer. And House ends up
giving the speech, but it doesn’t go quite as Vogler planned.
At a fundraiser for his Presidential run, Senator Gary Wright is overcome by illness and
collapses. At the clinic, Volger asks House to give a speech at a pharmaceutical meeting and
offers to relieve House of staff-firing duties if he does so. House also has to examine Wright and
believes something is up when he shows a lack of reflex. While they wait for the MRIs, House
examines a woman who was pregnant and had a miscarriage but claims she hasn’t. House orders
a brain biopsy but Cuddy overrides him and they put it to Wright, who agrees. The tests prove
negative for a brain tumor but shows a lesion caused by toxiplasmosis – indicative of AIDS.
Wright denies the possibility and refuses to take the pills for treatment, then calls for anonymous testing for AIDS and regular tests for cancer as ”cover.” The staff find out about it but
House isn’t interested in Cameron’s thanks. The female patient returns with a hickey but still
claims she hasn’t been with anyone and House orders tests for alcohol and date-rape drugs. The
AIDS test on Wright proves positive and when House tries to get a list of Wright’s sexual partners,
he still claims he couldn’t have gotten it from sex. Later Wright’s legs go out and House concludes
the AIDS test was a false indicator – a second test proves he doesn’t have AIDS but he’s dying of
something else.
Wright’s muscular condition continues to deteriorate, while the woman’s tests prove negative
for any drugs. Now she has a new symptom – a rash on her butt that is a carpet burn. She’s
waking up exhausted because her ex keeps bothering her. He has her go into a sleep lab while
they run more tests on the senator. One shows he has several enlarged lymph nodes but nothing
definitive. House confronts Chase, knowing he’s lied and is spying for Vogler, but Chase merely
notes there’s nothing House can do. House suspects Wright has leukemia of the spleen, which
may cause his death if they run another biopsy. Before they can run the test, Wright goes into
respiratory distress so they can’t do the biopsy.
Wright tests negative for leukemia but positive for Epstein-Barr, House determines the woman
is sleepwalking to her ex-husband, then takes Wright off the respirator. He concludes that Wright
didn’t have a childhood accident that led to a scarred tongue, but that he suffers from epilepsy.
The drug he took, in combination with Epstein-Barr, causes weakening of the antibodies. They
give him the proper treatment and he shows rapidly recovery, while House considers his speech.
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Finally the day comes, and as his staff look on, he gives... a one-sentence speech. After Vogler
threatens him again, House adds the truth – that the new drug is the same except more expensive. House goes back home to play the piano and gets a visit from Cameron, who quits because
of her feelings.
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Babies & Bathwater
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David Shore, Peter Blake (IV)
Bill Johnson
Cameron)
Chi McBride (Edward Vogler), Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson)
Kenneth Choi (Dr. Lim), Michael Goorjian (Sean Randolph), Marin Hinkle (Naomi Randolph), Reggie Jordan (Anesthesiologist), John Berg (Dr.
Prather), S.E. Perry (Officer Davis), Guy Camilleri (Heyden Brown),
Kevin Brief (Officer Angle), Diane Sellers (Gail Friedman), Veronica
Brown (Female Boardmember), Michael Simpson (Andrew Kaplan), Natalie Shaw (Rachel Kaplan)
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While House and his team scramble to discover what’s causing brain
and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is working to get
House fired after House’s pharmaeutical speech. House determines
the illness, but the woman and her husband must struggle with an
emotional and heartbreaking choice: choose between her or that of
her unborn child. Vogler calls for a vote to remove House, but when
Wilson refuses to make the vote unanimous, Vogler threatens to take
his money if Wilson isn’t voted out. Finally, Cuddy must take a stand
against Vogler.
A couple are driving through the streets and the pregnant wife is driving her drunk husband.
The woman temporarily blacks out and they barely manage to avoid a car wreck. The police show
up and think she’s drunk as she begins to act woozy. Then collapses.
Foreman is checking up on the couple and her brain tests prove negative but her kidney
and liver look odd – she’s only 28 weeks pregnant. House is indulging in a dream about Vogler
when Foreman brings him the news. House in turn gives them the news that Cameron has quit.
When Chase and Foreman visit the woman again, she goes into a choking seizure when she tries
to swallow. House meets with another couple, the Kaplans, whose baby has pneumonia and is
starving due to her parents’ diet for her. Foreman and Chase run tests and the woman, Naomi,
apparently goes into premature labor. House meets up with Vogler, who asks for his resignation
and public apology, or he’ll ”destroy” him.
As House and remaining team discuss Naomi, Wilson talks to House and notifies him of the
board meeting, warning him that Vogler can make him miserable despite House’s contract and
the anonymous vote required to withdraw it. The Kaplan’s baby is doing better but they’re arrest
for child endangerment and their child is taken by Child Services. House suspects Vogler but
Cuddy called them in to protect House from Vogler. On House’s advice, Foreman & Chase check
Naomi’s eyelid and find her esophagus swelling – they’re forced to order x-rays. They find a
suspicious mass that indicates small-cell lung cancer. The radiation treatments will endanger
the baby so a c-section is required, but he only has a 1-in-5 chance of surviving. She refuses the
treatment, willing to sacrifice her life to save her baby. At the board meeting, Vogler brings up
House’s record and threatens to leave (with his $100 mil) if House doesn’t go, and calls for an
immediate vote. Everyone but Wilson (including Cuddy) votes in favor so Vogler calls for a vote to
remove Wilson.
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House isn’t happy with Naomi’s decision and seeks a way to increase her odds, as the Kaplans
confront him. They note that their uncle, a nutrionist, advised them on the diet and he calls for
tests to determine an alternative problem. He goes to visit Wilson, who reveals he’s been fired
and House is next. Wilson agrees to find some drugs from Vogler’s clinical trials to help Naomi
and House gets her signed on to the test. House prepares to give her a c-section so she can get
into the program in two days. He offers Naomi the choice, aware that the clinical test will kill the
baby. He kicks out the husband and tells Naomi he knows she had a sick child when she was 18.
Naomi agrees to the c-section but as she goes into surgery, Vogler calls it off. House confronts
Vogler and things don’t go well – he refuses to let her into the clinical test since she’s high-risk
and it’ll endanger the FDA approval. Naomi goes into seizure from an embolism and is taken to
surgery, but it requires a c-section or the baby will suffer potential brain damage. The husband
forbids the c-section when Foreman warns it’ll probably kill Naomi.
They manage to break up the clot in surgery but her blood pressure drops as she bleeds
into the abdomen. House goes to talk to the husband and warns him she’s dying and there’s
nothing they can do, but he has to permit the c-section or the baby dies as well. He eventually
agrees and Naomi dies, but they manage to get the baby breathing despite the premature birth.
House confronts Cuddy over the Kaplans and shows the diet wasn’t responsible – the baby had
a problem with the thymus gland. He briefs Cuddy under the assumption he won’t be there after
the meeting. Vogler calls for a new vote and Cuddy refuses. Vogler calls for a vote to remove her
and Cuddy tells the board to vote with their conscience – if they vote to keep Vogler and his
money, he does own them. The board votes with Cuddy – Wilson is reinstated and Vogler kicked
out. The team celebrate although Cuddy isn’t too happy about the money lost.
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Kids
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Tuesday May 3, 2005 on FOX
Thomas L. Moran, Lawrence Kaplow
Deran Sarafian
Cameron)
Stephanie Venditto (Brenda)
Mark Bloom (Doc #1), Geraldine Singer (Woman), Tim Haldeman (Mature Man), Skye McCole Bartusiak (Mary Carroll), Diego Clare (Dawson), Erin Foster (Second Applicant - Dr. Petra Gilmar), Dylan Kussman (Mr. Carroll), Rhea Lando (Teammate #2), Lindsay Pulsipher
(Teammate #1), Ben Jelen (First Applicant), Cindy Lu (Nurse), Eric
Cazenave (Doc #2), Kelly Kirklyn (Mrs. Carroll), Eddie McClintock
(Coach), Shari Headley (Third Applicant)
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During an meningitis outbreak which overwhelms the clinic, House is
drawn to a single patient: a 12-year-old whose symptoms don’t quite
match everyone else’s. House, Foreman, and Chase must devise ingenious ways and locations to treat the girl’s delicate condition in the
middle of the chaos, and make an unexpected discovery. Meanwhile,
House asks Cameron to come back to her job but she has one requirement that he might not be able to meet.
At a swim meet, a 12-year old diver, Mary, goes onto the board and makes her dive, but when
she comes up one of the bystanders has collapsed. At Cameron’s apartment, House pays a visit
to ask her back but she refuses. Before they can get into it further, House is paged – there’s an
outbreak at the clinic. He returns to find the place crowded with patients and doctors – Cuddy
suspect meningitis at the pool center and dragoons him into service. Mary has a rash and a sore
neck, and her parents are out of town. House suspects something and brings Foreman to look
at her and Chase to do research. They give her a lumbar puncture but when Foreman returns
she’s been moved and when he finds her, he tells her the tests prove negative, but she begins
bleeding at the mouth.
Chase and Foreman run a probe into her intestinal tract to look for lesions but they find
nothing. While House and Chase spar over Chase’s duties, and Cuddy spars with House over
the fact they’re understaffed due to Vogler leaving with his money, a camera in her stomach
shows a suspicious swelling. Cuddy interrupts to tell them to show up for the 3:00 interview for
Cameron’s replacement – it doesn’t go well for the interviewee. Foreman tries to get a sterile room
for Mary for a bone marrow extract and ends up in the morgue, but she goes into arrest.
As her seizures increase, House and his staff consider their options and try a transcanial
ultrasound. House has another applicant who is quickly dismissed despite her ability to deal with
House. The transcranial shows Mary is bleeding into her brain and needs emergency surgery,
which Cuddy arranges. The surgery relieves the pressure but they still don’t know the cause.
House concludes from her rash that she’s bleeding into the skin and that... she’s pregnant. A
TTP condition is messing up her body and causing the symptoms. They’ll have to clean her blood
and terminate the pregnancy, but Mary doesn’t want her parents to know and the law permits
it. House can’t give the parents a straight answer but after the operation Mary tells her parents
what happened.
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With the next applicant, House informs her the position has been filled. He goes back to
Cameron who refuses to come back... unless they have dinner and a date. House agrees.
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Love Hurts
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Sara B. Cooper
Bryan Spicer
Cameron)
Stephanie Venditto (Brenda -Nurse), Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist)
John Cho (Harvey Park), Mark Brown (Dr. May), Kristoffer Ryan Winters (New Guy), Elizabeth Sung (Marilyn Park), June Squibb (Ramona),
Matt Malloy (Aubrey Shifren), Keone Young (Clyde Park), Christina Cox
(Annette Raines), Peter Graves (Myron Chase)
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House apparently triggers a stroke in a clinic patient, but the major
topic of discussion is House’s imminent date with Cameron, The team
must deal with the patient’s odd lifestyle, overbearing ”friend,” and
reluctant parents in order to stop the strokes and try to save his life.
Meanwhile, Wilson, Cuddy and the team offer House and Cameron
advice while laying odds on the outcome.
At the clinic, an Asian boy, Harvey, is waiting to be treated while House is catching a game
with a patient and discussing Cameron’s return with Wilson... and the fact he has to take her on
a date. When House comes out he (literally) runs into Harvey, who panics then has a stroke as
House tries to apologize (to avoid a legal complaint).
Cameron shows up to the joy of her fellow doctors and is greeted with the new case. She
immediately figures out he has a metal plate in his jaw from a prior injury, preventing a MRI.
They come up with alternate tests and House tells Cameron to keep her condition private – it
doesn’t last long. Foreman visits with Harvey, who is accompanied by Annette – Harvey’s parents
are dead and he has no other relatives. Harvey reveals he’s been grinding his teeth for at least
six months and is having trouble thinking of nouns. Annette has some medical knowledge but
Foreman is reluctant to involve her but soon has no choice. Meanwhile House is called in to
treat an elderly woman suffering from vaginal pains. Ramona’s older boyfriend Myron is a bit
too enthusiastic thanks to some Viagra. Ramona is concerned Myron go to someone else even
though she doesn’t want more sex.
Cameron treats Harvey but doesn’t come up with much, other then the fact his ”guru” Annette
has sent him to a bunch of acupuncturists, chiropractors, etc. Chase suspects aneurism from
blunt trauma and House goes with his magic 8-ball and Foreman’s suggestion. They go in to
find Annette seemingly choking Harvey, and Chase figures out she’s his dominatrix and was
administering carefully regulated erotic asphyxiation. – in return Harvey does her taxes and her
yard.
Chase reveals his own background and his knowledge of Annette and they end up going with
Chase’s diagnosis, and then Myron shows up. He has his own story about how he doesn’t want to
perform but Ramona insists. As House gives him a placebo, Cuddy congratulates him on dating
Cameron. Annette is banned from the hospital due to legal reasons, much to Harvey’s dismay.
He’s also suffering from weakness in his hands – Foreman’s treatment isn’t making a difference
and Harvey’s still having mini-strokes. They prepare him for surgery while Cameron and House
prepare for their date. Harvey begins to panic again without Annette present and Chase begins
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to throw some domination moves at him, without much success. They sneak Annette in past
Cuddy and Legal to get Harvey to sign permission to undergo surgery. But Harvey undergoes
mood swings and yells at her to leave, then goes berserk due to another stroke.
The clinic’s lawyer advises they can’t operate without his consent or approval from the parents. The lawyer needs a death certificate to prove they’re dead and so House’s staff is off to track
them down. Foreman tries to give House advice on his date, warning some relationships aren’t
meant to happen. Cameron and Chase are at Harvey’s apartment and find nothing but domination equipment and tic tacs. Trying to track Harvey down by phone, Chase gets a hang-up from
a Mr. Park and House manages to get through by telling him Harvey is dead and asking him to
identify the body. The parents refuse to help their son due to his ”proclivities” and refuse to give
their consent, and House threatens to make sure everyone knows they refused treatment – they
give in. Wilson gives some advice to Cameron, warning that he’s concerned about House who
may get hurt if he opens up again.
House and Cameron go on their date and House tries to make small talk, without much
success. Cameron whips out the Freudian diagnoses, which doesn’t go much better. She comes
straight out and asks him – how does he feel? House is typically blunt about how she’s looking
for charity cases after the death of her husband, and he’s perfect since he’s”damaged.” That
pretty much ends the date.
Harvey’s surgery takes place the next morning as everyone wants to hear the details of their
date. The surgeon reveals there’s no indication of an aneurism and they discuss other possibilities while Myron and Ramona show up. House reveals he gave placebos to Myron and tells them
to face up, then figures out they’re having an affair. They figure out they both don’t want quite
so much sex, but as Myron uses a breath spray House gets an idea.
House talks to Chase about how he found the tic-tacs at Harvey’s – he has an infected jaw
and the damaged tissue that broke off is blocking off bloodflow to the brain. House drains some
pus from inside to verify his diagnosis and orders the metal jawplate removed. Later House goes
to meet with Harvey, and Annette who has snuck into the hospital disguised as a nurse. Annette
talks about how their relationship is about openness and trust, but House doesn’t tell Harvey
whether his parents came or not when asked. House is left to study an old photo of a past love.
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Three Stories
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David Shore
Paris Barclay
Cameron)
Sela Ward (Stacy Warner), Stephanie Venditto (Brenda), Bobbin
Bergstrom (Nurse #2)
Nicole Bilderback (Caring Student), Carmen Electra (Herself), Andrew
Keegan (Rebellious Student), Josh Zuckerman (Keen Student), James
Saxenmeyer (Late 30s Men), Andi Eystad (Volleyball Player), Ingrid
Sanai Buron (Nurse #3)
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House’s ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner returns – not for House but to get
help for her ailing husband. While House decides whether or not to
take her case, Cuddy forces him to present a lecture to a class of
medical students. As he weaves the stories of three patients who all
present with a similar symptom, House gives a lecture the students
will never forget.
House has agreed to substitute for a sick teacher in exchange for a couple of hours off of clinic
duty. Since, as Cuddy points out, House would rather hear himself talk than listen to patients,
this trade was really a done deal from the moment Cuddy suggested it. House tries to talk it up
to four hours off clinic duty, but Cuddy knows him too well.
As House leaves, he meets his ex-girlfriend Stacy, who wants him to examine her new husband
who is having unidentified medical problems. House is reluctant to take on the case and admits
he isn’t sure if he wants Mark to live.
Now House is faced with the problem of teaching a class in diagnostics for which he hasn’t prepared. He sits and thinks while the students watch him, wondering what’s up with this strange
teacher. Despite being unprepared, House has lots of experience and so he digs through past
cases to use as example to teach his students.
Finally, House comes up with past patients he wants to use. He has two with similar initial symptoms, but needs a third. Normally, House thinks quickly and reacts immediately, but
he ponders his choices for patients now. Finally, he decides to include himself as the third patient. He wanted three, he just didn’t really want to include himself. But he just saw Stacy and
that brought all his past back up in his memory and that’s the only third patient he can see.
Ultimately, he pushes ahead. It’s not like these students will ever know it’s him anyway.
The three patients House has chosen did not occur at the same time in reality, but for the
purposes of his class, they do. The first case, the farmer, is actually the last case to happen
chronologically, and House’s team worked on this case although we’ve never seen that case or
its resolution. The second case is another we’ve never seen, and it occurred chronologically in
between the other two cases. Like the first case, House’s entire team was on-hand. The third
case took place much earlier, before House had a team, and before he even worked at the current
hospital. This third case is House.
At the beginning of the lecture, we see scenes as if we were viewing the cases House is describing. But we aren’t really, and you can tell by the tricks House plays with his storytelling. He
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pretends the volleyball player is a 40-year-old man, likely because a lot of diagnostic classes use
that as the patient. He makes the golf player (who is really House) into Carmen Electra. Why?
Because it’s more fun that way. House is teaching them that some information is important, and
other information isn’t important and can even be distracting.
But as the lecture continues, the scenes we see slip from reflection of the lecture House is
giving to actual scenes from the cases themselves. You see Chase and Foreman swabbing a dog’s
mouth, but the class hears that animal control does this. It isn’t really important to the class that
in reality House sent his team to do the work. What is important is that it got done. Even though
the case scenes become more realistic, they still contain some humor, like when House mentions
a case that hasn’t happened yet to his team. But notice as he moves over to the whiteboard after
making that comment and continues to discuss the case that ”hasn’t happened yet” that when
we see his team again, they are all wearing different clothes; a subtle clue that we’ve just shifted
in time to when the farmer’s case actually did happen.
House’s lecture interweaves the cases. The poor farmer finds himself in a tight spot. His dog
has already bitten a neighbor, and there is a law in the farmer’s city/county/state that if a dog
attacks a second person, it must be put down. Now the farmer loves his dog. And unfortunately,
the same law also says a doctor is required to report dog attacks. So the farmer hides this
information, figuring the hospital can fix him up anyway even if it doesn’t know it’s his dog that
did the damage. This leads House’s team on a merry chase, which turns out to make a good case
for the class to work through. It teaches them that patients don’t always tell the whole story, and
that death is a powerful force that sometimes provides answers to questions you thought you
knew the answer to.
Ultimately, the problem becomes clear that the dog had a flesh-eating bacteria it was immune
to, the farmer has his leg amputated, his dog is put down, he gets a new dog and a prosthetic
leg.
The young volleyball player suffers from tendonitis and a thyroid condition. The latter is
only discovered after an exhaustive exam by Cameron. Treating the thyroid condition leads to
discovery of a cancer in her leg. Of the three cases, this case is actually the simplest and most
normal.
So after surgery to amputate the leg and remove the cancer, the young girl recovers well
enough to play volleyball again.
Finally on to House’s case. At first House presents his own case as if he is a drug addict. He
does this because that is what the hospital he went to thought he was. He walks his students
right through all the same steps his doctors went through. His statement in the beginning of the
class that one of the three patients would be thrown out for being a drug addict causes all his
students to immediately identify his case as the drug addict.
In part, House’s comments on the urine test he underwent on return to the hospital is sarcastic. He knew he wasn’t seeking drugs and was really in pain, but the hospital didn’t believe
him and tried to dissuade him. As we know, House is not easily dissuaded and the results of that
test turned out to actually provide a clue to what was really going on.
News of House teaching a class draws his team into the class. Cameron comes in first, being
most interested in House as a person, and helps the students with part of the case diagnosis.
Later, Foreman and Chase sneak in, being interested in House as professional.
As we realize the third patient is House, the students still do not. In fact, only House, his
team, and Cuddy know the truth. House walks them through his past, using his pain to teach
them, to help them learn, so that someday maybe they won’t make the same mistakes that were
made with him. He does it with skill and powerfully, never flinching, except twice, for the briefest
of moments. One when he realizes Cameron is hearing his story, and the other when he sees
Cuddy.
Meanwhile, in the past, the demerol patient/House has refused Cuddy’s recommended course
for one that will leave him with his leg still attached. Stacy is at his side as House analyzes the fact
that the pain is bad but losing his leg is worse. House makes the call hospitals hate. But the pain
is worse than he’s expecting. His recovery is slow and interrupted by a near-death experience.
He shares this moment with his class, in part because he wants them to understand, to feel,
that the patient they are treating just died briefly. He replaces what he truly saw back then with
images the class can relate to, images of the other two patients getting on with their lives despite
their amputated lives. To make it past the pain, House opts to ”sleep” through two days, hoping
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that afterwards the pain will be lighter and he’ll be better able to cope.
Stacy talks to Cuddy who wants to know what she can do once House is in the coma. With
House unconscious, she overrule his decision and opts for Cuddy’s alternative, removing the
dead muscle tissue from the leg. This ultimately leaves House as we see him now.
The lecture is over... twenty minutes late, as House has lost track of time when telling his
story. As House leaves, he delivers a parting diagnosis of the sick professor he replaced, noting
the lead-based paint he tasted in the ”World’s Greatest Dad” mug. Oh, and he also says he won’t
be teaching another class again. After he leaves, he calls Stacy... and sets up an appointment to
see her husband.
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Honeymoon
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Lawrence Kaplow, John Mankiewicz
Fred Keller
Cameron)
Sela Ward (Stacy Warner)
Currie Graham (Mark Warner), Mark Holmes (Ambulance Driver), Revital Krawetz (Woman)
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When Stacy insists her husband Mark get tests, House insists he can
handle things. But despite the fact Mark’s tests prove negative, his
steadily growing symptoms indicate he is dying. While House struggles with the mystery and make increasing demands on his staff, Wilson worries about House’s emotional well-being, and Cuddy considers
adding a new employee to the clinic.
House is occupied balancing spoons when Stacy shows up to get her husband, who needs a
check-up due to abdominal pains, infantile regression, etc. Mark claims he’s under stress and
doesn’t need help, House isn’t too enthused about checking him out, and neither gets along with
the other too well. But in the middle of a toast Mark collapses thanks to House drugging him to
get him to the clinic.
The team go over Mark’s case and House orders a battery of tests – Wilson suspects he’s trying
to look good for Stacy and get her back. Cameron begins to question House’s persistence in the
matter when he orders exploratory surgery. House and Stacy spar in the waiting room as the
surgery goes well but discovers nothing. House goes over the video and finally spots something –
abdominal epilepsy, representing some kind of problem with his brain.
They pick up a discrepancy in the brain waves and global axial nerve-destruction that will result in an agonizing death. House continues to order a thorough investigation, much to Cameron’s
dismay. She suspects Alzheimer’s, which Stacy dismisses. They have a chat about House and
what he was like before his leg (he was the same) and the test confirm Mark doesn’t have
Alzheimer’s and encephalitis. At the house, Chase and Foreman find cookies left for them by
Stacy and a secret stash of amphetamines. They’re a dead-end – they don’t belong to Mark. They
administer questions while monitoring brain activity and House gets involved with some probing
questions about Mark’s marriage, who talks about their honeymoon in Paris.
Stacy has words with House about his invasion of their privacy, and he admits he doesn’t
know what’s going on. Stacy turns to him for comfort but all they can do is wait. Mark panics as
his extremities go numb and then paralyzed.
House comes up with a theory but if he’s wrong, Mark will die. Mark begins to panic at the
thought of Stacy and House together and then his throat closes up – House (correctly) deduces
it’s simply panic rather then the result of the virus or the treatment. Stacy and House both begin
to wonder what’s going on and if they should stay away from each other or get together – Stacy
opts for staying away. Later that night Wilson catches up to House after he discovers Mark isn’t
responding to the treatment.
But when talking to Stacy, House realizes they never went to Paris. Since he was being
scanned at the time, his brain ”confirms” he thinks he was telling the truth. With that additional
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symptom of delusions, House deduces it’s Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP), which involves light
sensitivity – and Mark had switched from mountain biking to indoor yoga. They can only test for
it in his urine when he’s having an attack to confirm he needs the otherwise lethal treatment,
so House proposes to instigate an attack. Stacy and Mark discuss it and Mark refuses House’s
proposal. Stacy insists he be tested and House refuses – Stacy believes he’s doing it as payback.
Mark still refuses treatment and House administers the trigger, but Foreman intervenes and
Chase and Cameron oppose him. Stacy insists and House feints and injects him. Mark goes into
seizures and he keeps them from giving him painkillers. When the catheter comes out, House
sticks a syringe into his bladder to get the urine symptom. The test proves positive for AIP and
they give Mark the treatment – he revives and the couple share a moment as House looks on.
Later Stacy admits she isn’t over House but she can’t be with him. Later Cuddy tells House
they’re going to hire Stacy back while her husband receives monitoring, but only if it’s okay with
him... he agrees. And alone at his apartment, House struggles to get along without his cane...
then reverts back to his vicodin.
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Season Two
Acceptance
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Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
Daniel Attias
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Joseph Williamson (Dr. Bruce), Mustafa Shakir (D Vontray), Jody Millard (Prison Guard), LL Cool J (Clarence), Michael Dietz (John Clift),
Michael J. Gonzalez (Carlos), Bryce Johnson (James), Adrienne Janic
(Dr. Vivian), Tony Ross (Emmitt) , Christie Lynn Smith (Cindy Kramer),
Warren Davis (Kent), Anesha Ndiaye (Darriene), Marshall Bell (Warden)
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A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House decides
to take on the case, over Cuddy and Foreman’s objections. House also
has to deal with Stacy who is working closely with him, while Cameron
has to cope with a dying patient.
A death-row inmate is on death row when his cellmate Clarence is taken to an exercise room.
After going through an exercise routine, Clarence hallucinates the people he’s killed and panics,
then collapses from some kind of heart problem.
House goes to visit Cuddy, who is visiting with Stacy. After talking his way past Cuddy’s new
(male) secretary, House convinces Cuddy to give him Clarence’s case. House leaves Cameron to
fill in for him at the clinic and gets in to see Clarence, a dangerous prisoner. Clarence is suffering
from lack of oxygen and when the warden is reluctant to have him removed, House has Stacy
get him moved with a court order and they close off a hospital floor to do so. Cameron’s clinic
patient, Cindy, has lung cancer but Cameron suspects it’s something else and House believes
she’s reluctant to accept the patient is dying.
Foreman suspects Clarence is using heroin and none of the staff are too sympathetic toward
the death row prisoner. When they check him out he goes into a seizure and complains about
thirst. House orders more tests and then Stacy confronts him, feeling House is abusing her
trust. Clarence confronts Foreman over his gang tattoo and it becomes clear Clarence isn’t a
particularly nice guy. The blood gas shows a new symptom, and overall it points to tuberculosis.
House sends Chase to the prison while Wilson meets with House and suggests he get Stacy’s
trust back, but they’re interrupted when Clarence goes into a coma. House gives him a shortterm boost and calls Chase back when he finds nothing. While Cameron hedges on telling Cindy
about her lung cancer, House goes to Clarence and they get drunk together. Over their bonding
House reveals he knows Clarence tried to kill himself by drinking copier fluid and the alcohol
he’s been drinking neutralizes it
The next morning House (with a hangover) staggers in – Stacy confronts him and he admits he
thinks Clarence is still sick, and asks her to help cover to keep him there. Clarence talks about
his brother to Foreman while Cameron demands a test from House that only he can approve, and
he initially refuses, but lets her have the test in return for doing two more of his clinic hours,
but it shows no sign of infection and Cameron has to do an invasive biopsy. The brain scan
on Clarence shows no abnormalities while Cuddy confronts House and demands Clarence be
removed. However, Clarence starts bleeding from the abdomen and they’re forced to keep him.
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Clarence’s bowels are turning necrotic and they use surgery to remove it, and House wonders
why Clarence killed his fourth victim – the first three he has a motive for. House confronts
Clarence over it and he admits the guy was watching him and somehow driving him crazy. From
that House concludes Clarence has a tumor that secretes bursts of adrenalin and orders tests to
confirm. Cameron is still hedging with Cindy and wants someone to acknowledge Cindy’s death.
House talks to Clarence and wants him to have a MRI, but his tattoos have metallic ink that
will cause him extreme pain. He agrees and they find the tumor. They get it out and Foreman
wants them to offer the tumor as a reason for Clarence’s murder sprees. House isn’t particularly
sympathetic but Foreman decides to testify at Clarence’s appeal, while Cameron finally gets
around to telling Cindy about her lung cancer.
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Autopsy
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Lawrence Kaplow
Deran Sarafian
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr.
Gregory House)
Stephanie Venditto (Brenda)
Hira Ambrosino (Anesthesiologist), Gwen Holloway (Neurologist #2),
Jewel Christian (Pam), Randall Park (Brad), William Jones (Dr. Murphy), Eamon Hunt (Neurologist), Sasha Embeth Pieterse (Andie),
Jonathan Fraser (Salesperson)
HOU-202
Dr. Wilson convinces House to take the case of one of his patients, a
young girl with terminal cancer who starts suffering from hallucinations.
A young chemotherapy patient, Andie, is preparing for her day, donning her wig and taking
her medication, then begins to hallucinate the bathroom collapsing around her and goes into
shock after breaking a mirror.
House is leaving the clinic with a cold when Wilson approaches and asks him to take on the
girl’s case – she’s hallucinating but not from the cancer, which catches House’s attention. He
has his staff do a battery of cases and Chase runs the girl through the MRI. Meanwhile, House
is dealing with a clinic patient who tried to do a circumcision on himself to please his girlfriend
and managed to mutilate himself with a pair of box cutters. Meanwhile the test prove negative
and House orders a new batch of pulmonary and lung tests. It becomes clear she’s becoming
infatuated with Chase and he grants her a kiss so she’ll know what it feels like.
The next day they get back together and Foreman suggests they test for neural-syphilis. Chase
believes she hasn’t had sex and has to confess to the kiss – nobody’s too thrilled by that. Cameron
checks Andie for rape and she proves clean. House gets together with Wilson and tells him his
suspicion that Andie has a tumor near the heart – an unrelated cancer. The only way to confirm
is with surgery and Wilson isn’t going for it. House uses an audio of Andie’s heart valve to detect
an abnormality in the mitral valve. They find the tumor in her lung along the heart wall during
the surgery, and have to remove it and replace the tumorous parts with cow- heart patches. But
during the surgery she starts bleeding out of one eye.
Afterward they conclude the tumor is benign and had nothing to do with the hallucination.
House concludes the tumor gave off a clot which caused the eye-bleeding and the hallucinations.
They go in looking for the clot but don’t turn up anything and Wilson is forced to tell Andie and
her mother the girl’s going to die, while House looks on. Later he wonders about her lack of
reaction and suspects her bravery in the face of death may be a symptom of the clot. However,
they have no way to find it without an autopsy, so House suggests they shut down her heart and
lower her body temperature so they can do the autopsy and locate the clot. Wilson convinces the
mother to agree and then House decides to explain it to Andie, and it’s clear she’s aware of what
is happening, and scared.
House and the staff practice on a corpse and have to get two liters of blood out without
moving her enough to disrupt the procedure. They finally bolt her to the table and go ahead
with the procedure. With time running out, Foreman spots the precise location of the clot, House
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accepts it, and they revive her. They’re able to remove the clot and Andie has her year of life.
Wilson notes to House that her bravery wasn’t a symptom of the clot, and House ”apologies.”
Wilson points out that she has more of a life then he does. Andie leaves the hospital as the rest
of the staff line up to greet her, and even House is there and gets a hug. Later he decides to do
something with his own life. . . and goes for a motorcycle ride.
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Humpty Dumpty
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Matt Witten
Daniel Attias
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron)
J.R. Villarreal (Manny), Charles Robinson (Robert), Ignacio Serricchio
(Alfredo), Christine Avila (Luisa)
HOU-203
An asthmatic man suddenly becomes unconscious and falls off of Dr.
Cuddy’s roof while working on her house.
Cuddy is out jogging and gets back home to talk to her handyman, Alfredo, and insists he
stay to finish her roof even though he isn’t feeling well. She goes inside and then Alfredo falls
off the roof. Cuddy rides with him in the ambulance going to the clinic and notices his two little
fingers are darker than the others.
House looks into the matter and suspects clotting problems, and has his staff run tests,
taking over from Cuddy. Stacy warns her not to get involved while Alfredo is eager to get out so
he doesn’t lose his regular job. Alfredo is having a third finger turning dark and Cuddy offers a
protein-c treatment that House considers risky. Meanwhile, Foreman is treating a clinic patient,
an African American, and recommends a blood-pressure treatment. The man, Robert, is skeptical
of the treatment and considers it racist. Alfredo gets right-side paralysis as a side effect of the
protein-c treatment and they call in a neurosurgeon to operate.
After the surgery Alfredo develops a bad cough and his temperature is spiking while his
fingers get darker and he has an infection in his lungs. Cuddy insists on riding the team on their
differential diagnosis and House suggests he was sick before he fell. Cuddy reveals Alfredo had
asthma. House insists they check out Alfredo’s house and sends Cameron and Cuddy goes along,
while House has Chase and Foreman sneak into Cuddy’s house and he tags along. Stacy hits
up Wilson for info on House and shows a bit of jealousy. Cameron and Cuddy find that Alfredo’s
roof is leaking, cockroaches, and a dead rat. Cameron brings up why Cuddy doesn’t fire House,
while House finds black mold at Cuddy’s house.
Alfredo has rat bites while House reveals the presence of mold and the x-rays confirm the
fungal infection is more likely. While they give him treatment, Manny, Alfredo’s younger brother,
hit Cuddy up for a job and accuses her of not caring. House and Stacy exchange words about
Cuddy’s guilt and House’s control issues. House gets together with Robert who didn’t take the
medicine, and who thinks House is a racist too, so House gives him ”Republican” medicine.
Alfredo isn’t getting any better and is suffering kidney malfunction.
They confirm it isn’t either rat bite fever or fungal infection and when House checks up on
Alfredo, he discovers the hand is rotting. House proposes amputation and Cuddy is reluctant
to allow it since Alfredo won’t be able to work – House accuses her of losing perspective. Cuddy
eventually agrees and tells Alfredo about the treatment, and he reluctantly agrees. Foreman consults House over Robert’s treatment and House reveals he gave him the same medicine Foreman
did, but Foreman still isn’t happy for House doing him a ”favor.” Alfredo undergoes the surgery,
but the necrosis has spread to his other hand.
They go back to checking the symptoms and noting a lack of DIC and House concludes Alfredo’s heart is infected and it broke off and went to first one hand and another. House concludes
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it’s parrot-related and orders treatment. House confronts Alfredo and brings him out of unconsciousness but when Cuddy doesn’t allow it, House figures he’d be out dancing. The staff head
out to where Alfredo would have gone and find. . . cockfighting. Manny is working there as well
but Alfredo’s asthma made him vulnerable. Cuddy is feeling guilty and House announces Alfredo
is suing them – Cuddy is okay with that, and with a little prodding from Stacy, he confronts
Cuddy over her guilt and (more or less) makes her feel better. Alfredo is left to consider his
missing hand, while Cuddy deals with her leaking roof and her guilt.
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TB or Not TB
Season 2
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Season Episode: 4
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David Foster
Peter O’Fallon
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory
House)
Joram Moreka (Father), Hansford Prince (Bogale), Andrea Bendewald
(Cecelia Carter), Harry F. Brockington IV (Dahoma) , Ken Weiler (Jerry),
Mary Wickliffe (Mandi), Ron Livingston (Dr. Sebastian Charles)
HOU-204
While in Africa, a famous doctor becomes inexplicably ill and is sent
to Dr. House for treatment.
In Africa, a plane flies in and brings medical supplies to a local tribe. The man in charge is
Dr. Sebastian Charles, who receives a riotous greeting from the locals. One man comes to him
and asks him for help for his son, who fell and isn’t breathing. Charles gives him treatment to
wake him up – the boy’s lung has deteriorated from tuberculosis. Later Charles is talking to a
pharmaceutical company, Stoia Tucker, during a board meeting and needs more drugs for them,
but they say they can’t help. In the middle of his spiel he collapses.
House comes in to meet with Cuddy who tells him they’re taking on Charles’ case. House isn’t
impressed by Charles, who is already meeting with his staff. House doesn’t believe it’s TB, over
Charles’ assertion. Charles starts throwing around his weight and Cameron seems interested
in him. House calls his staff back in with an emergency call. Chase notices a possible heart
condition, sick sinus syndrome, and they begin treatment.
House meets with a woman in the clinic and determines she’s allergic to her dead mother’s
cat, and is reluctant to take steroids. Then he watches while Foreman gives Charles a stress
test – when House cranks it up they find the problem, an abnormal PR interval. They schedule
him for a pacemaker and on the way to surgery, he offers Cameron a position and dinner. He
suggests she could become a better diagnostician by working in the field, but then suffers from
a headache and vomiting, collapsing on top of Cameron.
The new symptoms indicate sick sinus isn’t the problem, and House sends Foreman to deal
with his clinic duty, giving him his name tag. He meets with a Cecilia Carter who thinks she has
cancer, and she insists he see her now. Foreman thinks its nothing but she thinks he’s blowing
her off and insists he do a biopsy - he agrees. They run a MRI test and Cameron notices the TB
test patch she put on shows positive, forcing House to reconsider his diagnosis. Cuddy interrupts
a chat between House and Wilson and reveals that Cecilia is complaining because she got hostile
treatment from ”House.”
Charles refuses treatment and tests for anything else now that he thinks he has TB. Cameron
starts Charles on treatment, and he’s depressed that the medicine they can give him isn’t available to his patients in Africa. After a little thought he refuses to take the medicine to highlight
the medical shortages in Africa.
Dr. Charles calls a press conference and Cuddy goes along with it, while House decides to
give Charles ”third world” treatment. House turns up the heat, takes away his cell phone, and
unplugs his TV. Charles goes ahead with the conference, showing photos of his village and pressuring Stoia Tucker. House tells Foreman to apologize while watching the press conference on
the TV, then notices the lack of reddish color and the excess sweat. House barges in as Charles
goes into cardiac arrest and they manage to revive him.
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Charles lets them do tests but refuses to take the TB treatment, which House agrees he has.
After a brief back-and-forth on their relative styles, Charles agrees to take the TB treatment while
they run more tests. House concludes it’s an extremely small tumor in the pancreas that reacts
to stress. As they’re heading down to test House’s theory, they have to dodge Cecelia, who is with
Cuddy. They start ”poking” around in the pancreas and inject calcium – if the blood sugar drops
they know the tumor is there. After a second dose they get a reaction but the blood sugar doesn’t
drop low enough. As Charles goes into seizures, it drops at the necessary rate to confirm the
diagnosis and they revive Charles.
Later Cameron reveals she isn’t going to go out with him and House suspects it’s because
Charles is going to live – Cameron denies that she was focused on Charles’ image of a dying man.
House then proves his statement by approaching Cecilia when she doesn’t know he’s. . . well,
House. He hits her foot with his cane and then pretends to be a helpless cripple and fakes an
apology in front of an unwitting Cuddy a few seconds later. Cecilia is impressed and leaves.
Cameron says goodbye to Charles who is off to Africa, but not before he has another press
conference. House isn’t impressed and Wilson suspects it’s because Charles enjoys his job. . . and
House doesn’t.
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Daddy’s Boy
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Season Episode: 5
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Thomas L. Moran
Greg Yaitanes
Bobbin Bergstrom (O.R. Nurse)
R. Lee Ermey (John House), Diane Baker (Blythe House), Brian D.
Johnson (Taddy’s Boss), Jon Hershfield (Timekeeper) , Mackenzie English (Katrina), Brian Chase (EMT), Matt McKenzie (Dr. Fedler), Wil
Horneff (Taddy), Clifton Powell (Ken Hall), Vicellous Shannon (Carnell
Hall)
HOU-205
A Princeton student who is graduating suffers a seizure while partying
at a frat house. House’s parents also drop by to see their son.
A father and his son, Carnell, a Princeton student, are celebrating the son’s graduation and
they have a tender moment. Carnell is heading out to a party where he gets drunk with his
friends, but feels electrical shocks and starts going into convulsions as something happens within
his spine.
At the clinic, Carnell is still in serious condition and Wilson is running the differential because
House comes in late. House has to take the case because he owes Wilson for a $5,000 loan,
and suspects recreational drugs, but the tests and treatment prove negative. House concludes
something is missing and tells his staff to find out what it is they’ve missed. Carnell reveals he
had Ecstasy but then goes into another round of convulsions, and his history provides no clues.
Foreman suspects whatever he has is related to his heavy drinking, while House reveals he used
the $5,000 to buy a motorcycle, then gets himself invited to dinner at Wilson’s. House tells them
to check up on Carnell’s dead mother’s car accident 15 years ago. Wilson reveals his wife isn’t
speaking to him and he reluctantly agrees to the dinner.
The staff check for the genetic component but Carnell is unaware that his mother died in a car
accident she caused – his father Ken covered it up and told him it was a drunk driving accident
so Carnell would stay away from alcohol. Carnell then unwittingly has a bowel movement – he
has sphincter paralysis.
The DNA test doesn’t reveal any markers and then House takes a call to lie to his mom that
he can’t meet with her and his father as they’re passing through and have a layover. Foreman
suspects a molecular memory of an earlier virus along the spinal cord and House orders more
tests. Cameron approaches Wilson who considers canceling the dinner but Cameron convinces
him to invite the parents. Carnell isn’t happy with his father for lying but then reveals he went
on a trip to Jamaica without his dad’s knowledge. House concludes he was smoking marijuana
but may have been exposed to a pesticide despite the lack of evidence.
House figures out Wilson invited his parents and isn’t happy, and reveals he’s been testing
Wilson with increasing money loans, and offers to pay him back the loan if he cancels the dinner.
Wilson takes the money and tells House to cancel it himself.
Cuddy isn’t happy with House’s lack of evidence for the poisoning diagnosis but Carnell is
showing marked improvement and House is satisfied until Carnell goes into a new series of
convulsions. Now Carnell has a fever and infection, because of a reduced white- cell count. They
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give him broad-range antibiotics and send Cameron to find the guys Carnell went to Jamaica
with. She approaches Carnell who is reluctant to discuss it in front of his father. The father isn’t
happy about being kept out of the loop and Carnell reveals he went to Jamaica.
House meets with Cuddy and apologies for letting his duties at the clinic go. . . so he can work
the next night and get out of the dinner. She refuses and is going to be there herself. Cameron
meets with Carnell’s friend Taddy and reveals he has a fungus on his groin, and Cameron takes
a sample. No one else has health issues and House wants Taddy brought in, and House tells
her to get him in by telling him he has a life-threatening illness. Carnell starts bleeding into his
abdomen and they take him into surgery – the infection is responsible and House orders more
antibiotics. Taddy starts vomiting blood and they have him brought in, where House discovers
Carnell walked at a scrap metal yard owned by his father – Ken lied and said he was a construction worker. House confronts him and the father reveals he gave Carnell a lead plum on
a keychain, but doesn’t know where it is now. House sends Foreman and Chase to get the bureau where the key chain is – he’s figured the plum is radioactive and confirms it with a Geiger
counter.
After confirming Carnell has a tumor in his spine, they determine they need a bone marrow
transplant but the surgery will be risky due to his weakened immune system. House’s parents
arrive and insist he meet with them for a sandwich in the cafeteria. During surgery Carnell’s
heart rate and blood pressure drop, while Cameron and Foreman look on as House chats with
his parents. House’s father clearly isn’t thrilled with his son’s life.
Wilson is meeting with Ken when Chase comes in to update them on the surgery and there
is another intestinal perforation ad his white count is falling. Chase reveals there’s nothing they
can give Carnell to fight off the infection. Cameron gives House the news and he thanks her for
not getting involved, then tells her that he’s an only child and that his dad is like Cameron and
insists on honesty. . . even with his son. Ken meets with his son and they reconcile over their
mutual lies. . . but then he lies that Carnell will be fine.
Cameron talks with Wilson about House and the fact his dad thinks he’s a disappointment,
and gets on his motorcycle and heads off into the night.
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Spin
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Sara Hess
Fred Gerber
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House)
Julie Quinn (Matthew’s Mother), Patrick Roman Miller (Maintenance
Man), Kristoffer Polaha (Jeff Forster), Austin Whitlock (Matthew),
Nathan Kress (Scott), Scott Kradolfer (Matthew’s Father), Drew Garner (Blind Man), Currie Graham (Mark Warner), Taraji Henson (Moira),
Alanna Ubach (Dr. Louise Harper), Tom Lenk (Allen)
HOU-206
A professional bicyclist is brought in after collapsing during a race,
but House doesn’t want to treat him because he thinks the athlete is
taking performance-enhancing drugs. House only becomes interested
when the patient admits to taking the drugs.
At a bike race, two kids are looking for a good spot to watch – one of them, Matthew, needs an
inhaler. He spots his hero, Jeff Forster, who collapses and several other bicyclists plow into him.
A bored House is kicking back in his office when Stacy comes in and informs in he needs
to get his reapplication forms filled out. Cuddy interrupts to announce he has a patient – the
world-class cyclist who collapsed earlier, Jeff. Jeff has respiratory problems and House figures
it’s enhancement drugs, specifically erythropoietin (EPO). House visits Jeff who is there with his
manager Moira, and Jeff admits he gives himself transfusals of red blood cells. Jeff reveals his
whole enhancement history and why he does it to win, but stopped it for the bicycle race.
House meets with his staff for differential diagnosis but none of Jeff’s treatments correspond
to his respiratory distress. House suspects he has an air embolism as a result of his many
injections and orders a test. Cameron isn’t thrilled that Jeff is taking advantage of his fans and
then they spot the embolism.
House is having lunch with Wilson when Stacy comes in with her husband. House and Mark
spar briefly and Wilson reveals Mark is going through group therapy, giving House something
to think about. Meanwhile, Chase is extracting the air bubble from Jeff and gets it out but Jeff
starts drooling uncontrollably.
Chase concludes it’s muscle fatigue and House figures he might have hit a nerve but nothing
is definite so House calls for more tests before heading out to a session. . . the session Mark is in.
Despite the head doctor Louise Harper’s efforts, House stays on and she suggests he and Mark
work things out. Cameron prepares for a muscle biopsy and it becomes clear she has issues with
Jeff’s use of drugs. In session, things start off well but things break down and Harper sends
House to a different group.
The tests prove negative for all suspected problems – House wonders why Jeff’s tests are all
normal then suspects encephalitis. Jeff’s manager confronts Cuddy with Jeff’s (relatively) slow
treatment regimen and makes a donation to speed things up. During the new test, while Jeff
admits he took advantage of one young fan he goes into respiratory arrest again, with his red
blood count dropping.
House concludes that either Chase screwed up, or Jeff has cancer, and orders more tests.
While meeting with a clinic patient coming off smoking and suffering from diarrhea, Stacy comes
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in (repeatedly) to give House grief over his messing with Mark in group therapy. She tells him to
let it go, while House figures the patient is being poisoned by his sugarless gum.
Wilson is running cancer tests on Jeff while he wonders if he did it to himself and his manager
figures it’s a staff screw up. Later Wilson meets with Cameron after he’s figured out she calling
the newspaper and finding out if what Jeff did was cheating. Wilson admits that he cheated on
his wives but always came clean with them.
The tests show that there’s no cancer and Chase didn’t screw up. Cuddy comes in with Stacy
– the story about Jeff has gone public and Stacy is going to have to watch them since they figure
there’s a leak. House wonders why someone would leak information about Jeff’s supposed cancer
and confronts him, taking out his breathing tube to get him to talk. House figure he’s been using
a drug, EPO, and Jeff claims he hasn’t used it for years. Traces disappear after six hours so they
can’t test, and House figures Moira leaked the info to the press so Jeff could come back from
cancer and improve his image. Moira still denies she gave him EPO, and Jeff fires her.
Jeff starts to recover as they treat him for EPO but then has a relapse. Foreman orders a
transfusion and House orders them to scan Jeff’s neck. Then House chats with Wilson about
Stacy, and Wilson suspects he’s ”having fun” and warns it won’t end well for anyone. The staff
finds a thymoma, one that causes PRCA resulting in anemia. Transfusions and hyperbaria keep
the symptoms down, so Jeff’s been treating himself all this time, until he stopped the transfusions and hyperbaric treatments for the marathon. House reveals Mora is innocent and with a
quick injection cures Jeff. . . temporarily.
House drops in to meet with Stacy and want to know if she hates him or loves him. She
admits she hates and loves House. . . and loves Mark. They conclude there’s not much they can
do but live with it. Wilson chats with Cameron who is watching Jeff give an interview – she’s
not impressed with how he got away with cheating. Cameron reveals she fell in love with her
husband’s best friend Joe, but she didn’t sleep with him. Later House cons a janitor into letting
him into the group therapy room to get at Stacy’s psychiatric records, while Wilson and Cameron
consider their past affairs.
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Hunting
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Episode Number: 29
Season Episode: 7
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Liz Friedman
Gloria Muzio
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy)
Hamilton Mitchell (Infection Control Officer), Currie Graham (Mark
Warner), Wings Hauser (Michael Ryan), Matthew John Armstrong
(Kalvin Ryan)
HOU-207
A gay man with full-blown AIDS collapses in front of House’s home
and goes into shock. When House discovers the man’s father is suffering from symptoms of his own, he must determine if they might
be connected and save both their lives. Meanwhile, Cameron faces a
potentially life-threatening disease of her own.
Wilson picks up House while they discuss House’s theft of Stacy’s treatment notes. Wilson
isn’t thrilled, particularly he finds out Stacy and Mark aren’t having sex despite his recovered
status. As they head out they run into a ”stalker,” Kalvin Ryan, who wants House to treat him.
House quickly concludes he has AIDS but Kalvin claims he’s been tested and all the tests are
negative. After a brief struggle Kalvin collapses.
Cuddy insists House meets with Stacy in case Kalvin files a lawsuit, and they spar at Stacy’s
house as she reveals she has a rat. They share a moment before Mark interrupts, clearly upset.
House accepts the case but is bored until they figure out Kalvin is showing all the signs of fighting
back against the AIDS but is still getting worse. House suspects the strength of Kalvin’s immune
system fighting back is causing his new symptoms, and orders more tests. House then prepares
to kill Stacy’s rat so he can get her to reveal his feelings so he can get her fired, but notices its
odd behavior.
While Kalvin flirts with Chase, House and Stacy head up to Stacy’s attic to find the rat and
share another moment, but they’re interrupted by the staff calling him and updating him. House
quickly prescribes some treatments but is more concerned with killing the rat he just spotted.
Kalvin’s tox screen shows recreational drugs and it’s clear he’s not too concerned with maintaining his health. He starts to cough and then bleed, spewing blood onto Cameron’s face.
Cameron is given treatment for the possibility of AIDS while House considers the new symptom, a ruptured blood vessel in the lung. Cameron comes in, clearly determined to keep on
working, and gives her theory that Kalvin’s rec drugs are contaminated. While her and Chase
go off to check Kalvin’s apartment, House runs the rat’s odd behavior past Foreman to get a
diagnosis. Cameron mentions that legal might check her out for HIV testing and treatment and
accuse her of using drugs to get out of paying her bills. They also find Kalvin’s photos of broken
1930 fluorescents that contained beryllium, which can inflame the lungs and inhibit breathing.
House orders Cameron to get a lung biopsy from Kalvin. Kalvin reveals to her that he brought
his drugs in to the hospital and insists she should show some reaction rather than sympathize
with him.
Back at Stacy’s, House breaks in and when Stacy shows up, informs her that the rat has a
tumor that might be caused by something in the house. When Mark calls House takes off, but
not before leaving up the toilet seat to annoy Stacy.
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Kalvin goes into respiratory distress as he supposedly bleeds into his blood cavity, and asks
them to tell his father he’s sorry. They find nothing in the cavity and Foreman believes he has a
tumor on the heart. CT confirms his diagnosis but Cameron believes it may be a non-lethal mass
and House lets her conduct the test to confirm. He also wonders why Kalvin would be apologizing
to his father, when his father threw Kalvin out. As Cameron conducts her test and reveals she
hid his drugs, Kalvin suggests that HIV might actually loosen her up since she no longer has to
play by the rules.
House heads off to Stacy’s to confirm that she hasn’t told Mark that House is with her, and
the two of them wait for the rat to come out to take the antibiotics in the bait. He reveals the rat’s
urine shows signs that someone in the house is smoking – Stacy has been doing it secretly and
started two weeks after House’s surgery. They share yet another moment over her misery over
his pain and how she caused his pain, and they start to consider a kiss when the rat sets off the
trap.
Chase goes to visit Cameron who grabs him and starts kissing him. She’s clearly high on
Kalvin’s drugs and they end up in bed together. The next day Cameron shows up for work as
House arrives with his rat (nicknamed ”Steve McQueen”) and quickly figures out she was using.
They end up at Kalvin’s room to find his father Michael has arrived and they’re having a fight.
House pokes away at why Kalvin apologized until Michael reveals Kalvin killed his mother.
The staff check over the new information – Kalvin lied and his mother died because she needed
a kidney and he was the only donor, but had HIV. It soon becomes clear to everyone Cameron
and Chase slept together, and the tests show that Kalvin has terminal cancer with no chance of
a cure, and they prepare to pinpoint its location with a biopsy. Chase helps Cameron with her
symptoms and admits they might have a problem with their continuing relationship.
House and Wilson discuss the rat, which is on two weeks’ of antibiotics, and House remembers
the fact that Kalvin’s dad was sweating and they’re from Montana. House cancels the biopsy and
concludes Kalvin’s illness is caused by parasites native to Montana that infest foxes – Kalvin and
Michael hunted in Montana. They can stay in a host body for decades, causing cysts, and House
has figured Michael has cysts in his liver. A blood test for Michael will confirm House’s diagnosis
and Michael is upset that Kalvin killed his mother. House aggravates both of them by accusing
Kalvin’s mother of killing herself. Michael takes a swing at him and then House cold cocks him
in the gut, initiating anaphylactic shock and confirming his diagnosis the hard way.
Father and son go into surgery and have the cysts and parasites removed. House is satisfied
but Cuddy sends him to see Stacy since the father might sue. Cameron confronts Kalvin over the
fact he isn’t happy and is trying to self-destruct and take her with him. House meets with Stacy
who gets him ice for his bruise, while he informs her that Mark has to know about her smoking.
He accuses her of not sleeping with Mark despite her denials, and she figures out he’s certain
because he read her file. Everything he’s done has been based on the inside info he had, and
he accuses her of letting it happen because she wants him around. She says, ”Not any more”
and kicks him out. Kalvin and Michael have a reunion and son finally apologizes to father as
Cameron looks on. Stacy seeks comfort in a happy Mark’s arms, Chase notices a cut lip from
his encounter with Cameron, and Cameron counts the days until she can take her first HIV test.
And House. . . House is home alone with the rat.
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The Mistake
Season 2
Episode Number: 30
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Peter Blake (IV)
David Semel
Gregory House)
Sela Ward (Stacy Warner), Stephanie Venditto (Nurse Brenda)
Greg Winter (Chuck), Sammi Hanratty (Dory), Kate Enggren (Mrs. Ayersman), Adair Tishler (Nikki), Licia Shearer (Clinic Patient), Ryan
Hurst (Sam McGinley), Kevin Moon (EMT), Sterling Beaumon (Boy Magician), John Lafayette (Dr. Schisgal), Allison Smith (Kayla McGinley),
John Rubenstein ( Dr. Ayersman)
HOU-208
House and Chase find themselves in a serious situation after a young
mother with stomach pains dies. Months later, Stacy counsels Chase
prior to his disciplinary hearing, and must determine whether Chase
made a mistake that ultimately led to the patient’s death. She soon
realizes he is holding something back.
At a children’s talent show, a young magician is giving his show while a mother gets her
daughters ready to go on next with a dance number. As they perform the mother takes some
painkillers then screams in pain from stomach pains.
Six Months Later
Stacy is preparing for a disciplinary hearing with Chase and House, while expressing her
reluctance to work with House. After a tense meeting with House, she briefs Chase that his career
rests on what happened, and has him review the case for her. The patient, Kayla, presented to
the clinic with stomach pains and Foreman tested her for cerebral coordination. Her iris was
inflamed, attracting House’s attention. House sends Chase to check for genital sores after Chase
spills his Vicodin pills. Chase and Kayla bonded as he found ulcerations and he recommended
minor treatment. She came back later for the pustule on her arm and ended up with Chase,
without an appointment. He claims they didn’t even go into an exam room, but he’s lying and
Stacy quickly catches him at it. Then he reveals that the medicine he gave her didn’t help and he
gives her a stronger antacid then left her without pursuing the matter.
House is responsible since he is Chase’s superior, and Wilson wonders if Stacy might get
Chase to rat on House to clear himself. Chase reveals he called Kayla an hour later to follow up,
and then the EMTs brought her in with massive bleeding. Chase ran a tube down her stomach,
which was filled with blood from an ulcer. Chase cauterized the rupture but there was a perforation and stomach content leaked into the rest of her body, causing sepsis and liver damage.
Stacy talks with Cameron and questions whether she’s biased. Cameron tells Stacy to talk
to House. . . so she talks to Foreman. Foreman isn’t impressed with Chase’s bedside manner
and wonders if she’s talked to House. House is dealing with a patient with a continuing cough
when Stacy demands to speak with him. She finally asks him why Chase screwed up but House
says he didn’t screw up. He reveals how he spotted the second ulcer with the perforation, then
confronted Chase over the fact he didn’t check Kayla earlier. When the patient, Chuck, overhears,
House lays a story on him to convince him to get health insurance so he doesn’t’ have to come to
the clinic.
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Afterward Kayla needed a liver transplant and her brother offered, but she went into convulsions before they could arrange anything. Cuddy refuses to authorize the transplant because
she’s too ill, but House manages to get her on the list by pointing out the legal ramifications. The
brother managed to rush through his medical test to confirm he’s a perfect match, and House
has to explain how he convinced the transplant surgeon, Dr. Ayersman, to take on the case. . . by
slipping him money. When that doesn’t work, he resorts to blackmail him with his affair with
a variety of nurses. After Ayersman performed the surgery, House ratted him out to his wife
anyway.
The surgery went well, but two months later Kayla returned and House forced Chase to check
her out to rub his nose in it. He noticed a fever and ordered tests – her temperature spiked
an hour later and Foreman suspected she was rejecting the transplant. Chase believes it’s an
infection and the brother Sam barges in. House spots the fact he has hepatitis and he faked the
medical test – but House concludes he gave her liver cancer based on the symptoms. They operate
on both of them, but due to the cancer Kayla rejected the liver and couldn’t get authorization for
another transplant.
The legal papers come through and they confirm gross negligence – Chase has to reveal that
Sam came up with a second transplant through an illegal source, and he confronted Sam and
Kayla over it. He admitted to them he made a mistake and tells her of how his father died, and
that she shouldn’t die alone seeking a hopeless cure. She agrees despite her brother’s pressure
and guilt, and is happy Sam was saved. She died a week later but now Sam is pursuing the
lawsuit against Chase – Stacy believes there’s something personal from when Chase met with
Sam a week earlier. Chase reveals that Sam told him he planned to move and take Kayla’s two
daughters with her, and he admitted he misdiagnosed Kayla because he was hung over.
House calls for a private conference with Chase and confronts him with the fact that Chase
wasn’t hung over, but claimed he was out of guilt. In reality Chase had received a call from his
stepmother with the news his father had died – upset, he didn’t pursue the matter with Kayla.
House reveals that he knew but Chase’s father asked him not to tell, and that it’s better for him
if Chase goes down.
While waiting for the results, House and Stacy discuss their relationship and his concern he
might do something while distracted, and Stacy admits it’s not all negative but neither one knows
what to do. House is called in and the committee notes Chase screwed up and will get a oneweek suspension, but they otherwise feel his father’s death clears him of further punishment.
They’re not happy with House, however, and order that he be supervised by another doctor for
one month. Cuddy has to choose the doctor and reveals that. . . Foreman will be his supervisor.
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Deception
Season 2
Episode Number: 31
Season Episode: 9
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Michael R. Perry
Deran Sarafian
Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase),
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman)
Patrick LoSasso (Do-Gooder), Larry Weissman (Fat Man), Xhercis
(Imelda), Nell Rutledge (Hailey), Bru Muller (John) , David Desantos
(ER Doctor), Peter Abbay (Cab Driver), Rod Britt (Teller), Cynthia Nixon
(Anica Jovanovich)
HOU-209
With Foreman as House’s supervisor, the team must figure out if a
woman who cried wolf too many times is really ill.
At a gambling joint, House is watching a horse race and tries to place a bet. A guy slows down
the line when a woman, Anica interrupts him to get things going so House can place his bet. They
compare betting notes but when House turns away for a second she collapses in convulsions and
House notices bruising on her chest and sends her to the clinic.
The staff meets with Foreman running the meeting and ordering House to do the medical history – House is skeptical of his diagnosis of a sexual or alcoholic-based disease. Afterward the two
spar in front of Cuddy but she goes with Foreman, but warns him he’ll have full responsibility.
House runs Anica’s medical history and checks her, thinking she might have Cushings. Anica
recognizes the disease and reveals she had it a year ago and had the tumor on her pituitary removed. In the MRI they check to see if the disease relapsed, without success, and Foreman orders
more tests. House performs a LP on her spine with a needle, causing intense pain, then orders
the observing Cameron to meet with him. House asserts she still has Cushings and Foreman
relents despite his assertion she’s suffering from alcoholic withdraw.
Foreman finds out House orders MRIs for the entire maternity ward and confronts him over
it, and it becomes clear House is going to push it as far as he can. Cameron and Chase find
a mass on her pancreas and give her two months. Cameron breaks the news to Anica who
takes it very calmly. They take her into surgery for a biopsy with House assisting. Later House is
called in to check out a woman with a vaginal infection resulting from. . . strawberry jelly that she
used as a spermicide. The biopsy proves negative and Cameron suspects she has Munchausen’s
and injected herself with ACTH to bring on the symptoms herself. Foreman sends House and
Cameron to break into Anica’s house, and House gives Cameron a lift on his motorcycle. At the
apartment they find she’s visited several doctors but also has three pairs of eyeglasses, possibly
confirming she has a tumor pressing on the optic nerve.
Foreman vacillates between the two possible diagnoses until he eventually orders a test –
but House calls him on giving in just to play it safe. Cameron takes the consent form to Anica
and accuses her of faking her symptoms and leaves a bottle of pills behind. Foreman goes to
Cuddy who is less than sympathetic with his griping and suggests it could be permanent. As
their meeting afterward they get a call to call off the test – she’s urinating orange, due to the
pills Cameron left behind. Anica took them to bring on new symptoms, confirming Cameron’s
diagnosis.
While House goes through the files, Anica denies doing anything to herself. House then confronts them with his belief that her levels are still low and that she has Munchausen’s and
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aplastic anemia. He suggests a bone morrow biopsy but Foreman is reluctant until House suggests they run tests on the initial blood tests –if the tests are positive, Foreman will grant the
biopsy. There’s not enough blood but House flirts with the technician into doing it anyway. Foreman approaches Wilson and asks if there’s anyway House will take him seriously as a boss.
Wilson can’t help him but agrees to keep silent on it. House confronts Foreman with the test that
shows positive, but Foreman quickly spots that it’s a ringer. When he refuses, House appeals
to Chase since Foreman has barred him from Anica’s room. Cuddy and Foreman catch on and
discharge her without the test.
House intercepts Anica outside and offers to do the test outside on the bench while sympathizing with her history that led to her Munchausen’s. He’ll give her a cocktail of insulin and
colchicine that will confirm his diagnosis. . . unless she’s faking, in which case the injection will
kill her. She says she hasn’t taken anything else and House gives her the injection then leaves
so he won’t be connected to her seizure.
Foreman’s wondering about how Anica collapsed just outside the hospital when Cameron
comes in with a confirmation of the anemia. House rubs it in then Foreman goes to meet with
Anica and tell her what she’s suffering from. Either she can get a marrow transplant which
could kill her, or go on a lifetime regiment of injections. She agrees to the transplant and they
have to kill the old bone marrow then keep her in sterile conditions for two weeks until they
can perform the transplant. House is in her room and finds a piece of clothing, and realizes she
has an infection but her faked symptoms were suppressing the infection. House advises a safer
course despite the low white cell count, and comes up with...colchicine, that he gave her. There’s
bacteria inside her bruises which got into her organs.
Foreman goes to Cuddy and says he’ll take her offer, but Cuddy refuses and points out House
saved Anica’s life despite his actions. Foreman leaves, disgusted with what House did and what
it could lead to. House and Wilson leave and Wilson points out that House couldn’t handle it
with Foreman as his boss despite his claims he’s fine with it. Anica is at another hospital with
her new symptoms, while at the gambling joint House places a major bet to win.
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Failure to Communicate
Season 2
Episode Number: 32
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Doris Egan
Jace Alexander
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase),
Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory
House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr.
Lisa Cuddy)
Michael Len (8 Year Old Boy), Amy Margolis (Mother), Derek Anthony (Guard), Pat Caldwell (Mary Jean), Bruce French (Peter Foster),
Mimi Kennedy (Greta Simms), Erica Gimpel (Elizabeth Stone), Michael
O’Keefe (Fletcher Stone)
HOU-210
While attending his editor’s retirement party, a journalist collapses
and hits his head on a desk. When he regains consciousness, his sentences are garbled and incoherent, so he is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. With House and Stacy stranded at an airport
due to bad weather, the team is forced to solve the case with House
helping out over the phone.
At a newspaper editor’s retirement party, reporter Fletcher Stone is giving a congratulation
speech to the woman as his wife Elizabeth looks on. In mid-speech he collapses and hits his
head on a desk. He wakes up moments later but is babbling uncontrollably although it is clear
that he believes he is speaking normally.
Cuddy comes in to talk to Foreman, revealing that House is in Baltimore with Stacy justifying
his Medicaid billings. Foreman volunteers his services but Cuddy is skeptical. Cuddy gives Foreman the symptoms so he can find an appropriate doctor and reveals the patient, Fletcher Stone,
is a famous author. Cuddy finally gives in and gives Foreman the case. Foreman concludes it’s
aphasia and has Fletcher try to draw or write something – he’s incapable of doing so. The editor
shows up to claim that Fletcher’s foot twitched and that was the reason he fell, rather than due
to an accident.
Stacy and House are meeting with the Medicaid review officer, Peter Foster, and it stacks up
to be a long meeting. The staff spar over who is in charge and they eventually decide to approach
the matter as equals. House has trouble justifying his expenses and Stacy manages to appeal to
the official’s better nature. Afterward House offers Stacy a dinner but they’re on separate flights.
House notes her crucifix is missing and that something is up.
The staff administers a barrage of tests based on their individual theories, much to Greta and
Elizabeth’s skepticism. Fletcher has a respiratory attack and they’re forced to intubate. The tests
show amphetamines even thought Fletched claimed he had given up drugs. House, waiting at the
airport for his flight, interrupts Wilson in the middle of a sob session with a nurse to get the news
on the aphasia case, which he’s heard from Cuddy. Fletcher is now running a fever and House
then calls Foreman to get the scoop and start recommending treatments. He also tells them to
get a medical history – Fletcher can answer in one-word sentences of yes or no. The editor claims
Fletcher is off of drugs but he takes sleeping pills, which Fletcher confirms but wants to keep
from his wife.
After administering a MRT, they find an old brain edema but it’s in the wrong part of the brain
and Fletcher claims he’s had no previous head trauma or symptoms. The flights are stacking up
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in Baltimore, leaving House and Stacy together to make small talk as House tosses out diagnoses
of the various folks in the lounge.
Cuddy shows up to ask Foreman about his progress and he and Chase quickly duck out
for ”supper.” House returns to Stacy’s missing crucifix – Stacy is less than thrilled. Chase and
Foreman find an anti-convulsive medicine at Fletcher’s office, then head to the home to check
up the wife. They find an incomplete home-work project but no other medicines, and it’s clear
Foreman is uncomfortable not having House to back him up. House continues to pursue the
missing crucifix and it’s clear Stacy is hiding something.
Fletcher is having stomach problems and communicates that he has a metallic taste. Finally
Stacy reveals she and Mark had a fight over nothing and she thinks he’s pushing her out of his
life. Wilson finally gets through on Stacy’s phone and gives House the new symptom. Foreman is
insisting on a lumbar puncture when House calls to advise them to put pressure on Fletcher to
get him to come clean. They confront Fletcher with the news but he still has nothing to tell them.
Cameron prepares to administer the lumbar puncture and starts to figure out what he’s saying.
Meanwhile the airport announces that all flights are grounded and Stacy reveals she already has
a hotel room booked.
When they arrive House wants to know what’s going on, and Stacy is avoiding him to avoid a
relationship. . . while wondering if they’ll end up having a relationship. They end up kissing but
are interrupted by the phone. It’s Foreman with the LP results – it shows some kind of infection
but doesn’t narrow it down. Fletcher only has a day or two but Cameron gives her theory –
Fletcher opened up to her due to her sympathy, which is what House had planned. House can’t
resist getting involved, much to Stacy’s dissatisfaction.
The staff goes over Fletcher’s statements with House listening in, trying to draw patterns to
what he’s saying. Cameron concludes that it’s Elizabeth’s presence that is screwing up Fletcher’s
speech patterns. Once Cuddy gets her out with a story, Fletcher starts to make sense and House
figures out when he’s talking about a bear, he’s talking about the puzzle of a polar bear – Fletcher
is bi- polar and has been using alcohol during the depressive periods and weight medicine during the manic phases. Before House is forced to get on the plane, he concludes that Fletcher
covered up his disorder as a journalist but tired to change for his wife. House concludes Fletcher
underwent secret surgery, explaining the older scarring. Elizabeth comes in and gets the news,
and is unhappy at his secrecy. House recommends they test the blood by hand to confirm the
diagnosis – cerebral malaria, which the computers missed.
Later, Fletcher’s editor tries to reassure him that Elizabeth will be back. House and Stacy
share a moment about trust and relationships and then Stacy goes on ahead until she can get
House off the no-fly list.
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Need to Know
Season 2
Episode Number: 33
Season Episode: 11
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Pamela Davis
David Semel
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
House)
Edward Kerr (Ted Dalton), Julie Warner (Margo Dalton), Currie Graham (Mark Warner), Holly Daniels (Debbie), Elle Fanning (Stella Dalton)
HOU-211
While House’s staff tries to diagnose a woman whose uncontrollable
muscle flailing caused her to crash her car, House and Stacy try to
resolve their relationship issues once and for all. Cameron refuses to
take her HIV test, wary of the results.
A woman, Margo Dalton, is preparing for her daughter Stella’s birthday party when she feels
a twinge on her arm. Going out to her car, her other arms begins to convulse as well. She begins
uncontrollably spasming and backs the car into the garage,
House shows up early and well dressed, after the events with Stacy in Baltimore. House
suspects Margo may be pregnant and give her a paralytic so they can calm her down and run
some tests. Wilson confronts Stacy over her kiss with House and warns she can’t toy with him.
She admits she doesn’t know what she’s doing.
The tests reveal Margo isn’t pregnant and they check for Huntington’s, and suspect it may
relate to the fertility treatments she’s undergoing. Margo displays irritability which confirms
Foreman’s diagnosis of Huntington. They’re interrupted by a report of Margo going berserk and
go into her room and manage to calm her down.
House suspects she’s using drugs and sends Cameron and Foreman to check out her house.
Then he sneaks into Wilson’s office to confront him over Stacy and Wilson suggests they work
things out or at least do something. Cameron finds the daughter Stella’s Ritalin and House
suspects they’re the cause and the drug will flush out of her system after 12 hours, and they’re
done. When Foreman chooses not to release her until it’s confirmed, House goes to visit the
family and does an animal balloon (badly). He interrogates Stella and determines she’s not on
her Ritalin, and Margo reveals she never told her husband Ted and never gave them to Stella.
House proves she’s lying and Margo fesses up.
House then visits Stacy who reveals she’s leaving now that Mark is better. House points
out she loves him more then Mark and he doesn’t want her to leave, and they. . . stare. Margo
is discharged but in the lobby she has a stroke and collapses. Cameron calls House with the
news. . . and he’s in bed at his home with Stacy.
House shows up and then collects on his bet with Foreman that Cameron wouldn’t take her
HIV test. They begin to work on diagnosing Margo’s new symptoms and House suspects the
Ritalin and the fertility meds conflicted and did something to her uterus causing cancer. As
they’re heading out House tricks Cameron into getting him a sample to run the HIV test. On the
roof, Stacy meets with House and he wants to know if she is going to tell Mark – she stalls. He
warns that she’s going to have to choose.
The tests on Margo come back negative and Foreman is unwilling to do a biopsy. . . but his
four weeks is yup and House takes charge, ordering the biopsy for the suspected tumor. House is
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watching TV when Stella comes in and they have a brief talk. As they do the biopsy of her uterus
Margo starts bleeding out before they can do the procedure. Stacy goes to Cuddy for advice but
doesn’t get much help. They determine Margo’s bleeding is from her liver and there’s a tumor of
some sort there. Then Mark comes to House asking for advice, as he’s concerned he’s shutting
Stacy out. House refuses to help him and tries to go up a flight of stairs to avoid him – Mark tries
to pull himself up and collapses.
In their differential diagnosis session, House doesn’t think the symptoms make sense and
takes another look at her history. House concludes Margo was secretly using birth control pills
to negate the fertility treatments, because she didn’t want a child even though her husband did,
and she didn’t want to confront him. The combination of Ritalin, birth control pills, and fertility
treatments caused the tumor, which House believes is benign. But Margo still claims she’s not
taking the pills and insists on undergoing surgery despite the risks, and Cuddy agrees. The
surgery turns up the tumor which is benign. The husband, wonders why the benign tumor was
causing all the symptoms but he eventually buys it. Margo asks Foreman to lie and claim she
can’t take fertility treatments any more – Foreman refuses.
Cameron goes to House who has her HIV test results. House has already read it and gives it
to her to read. House confronts Stacy, who reveals she’s going to tell Mark she’s going to House.
He tells her it’s Mark who is willing to do what it takes, not him, and he can’t make her happy.
He points out it won’t end well and they’ll end up back where they left it.
As the staff wonder how long Margo’s marriage will last, Wilson sees Stacy packing up and
he confronts House. Wilson points out that House sent Stacy away so he could keep feeling
miserable, and so he won’t have to change and lose what he thinks makes himself special.
Wilson storms off as House considers what he said.
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Distractions
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Lawrence Kaplow
Daniel Attias
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Gregory House)
Stephanie Venditto (Brenda the Nurse)
Judy Louise Johnson (Surgeon), Michael Merton (Anesthesiologist),
Kristen Pate (Paula), Dorothea Harahan (EMT), Dan Butler (Dr.
Phillip Weber), James Immekus (Adam), Lisa Darr (Emily), Christopher
Cousins (Doug)
HOU-212
While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come
back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his
own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove
a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.
A father is dirt-bike racing with his son Adam on the back. They pull to a stop and the son
convinces him to switch places. Then the boy spasms and tights his hand on the throttle, and
they go running wild. The father is thrown clear and Adam crashes into some pipes and the bike
bursts into flame.
The boy is brought to the clinic with 40% burns on his body and taken immediately to the
E.R. Foreman interrupts House to do a differential due to low potassium and House agrees –
his diagnosis for Adam isn’t hopeful even ignoring the massive burns. Meanwhile Nurse Brenda
approaches Dr. Cuddy and needs equipment for a lecture that a Dr. Weber is giving – Cuddy
determines House has invited him. She confronts House, who is working on a coma patient who
has a migraine – he gave the patient a migraine to test some new medication.
The staff uses a galvanometer to check Adam’s heart since there’s not enough skin to do an
EKG. The parents report he took pot but isn’t on any other drugs that they know of. Adam goes
into convulsions – House suspects MS but they’re unable to give him the standard lumbar or
radiation tests of his brain. House suggests a Doppler sound device and they go for it.
Cuddy finds herself introducing Dr. Philip Weber, who deals with headaches. House is lurking
in the audience and Wilson confronts him after realizing he and House went to Hopkins and
studied under the same teachers. It turns out House was supposed to get an internship until
Weber accused him of cheating. Now House plans to prove he’s a bad scientist. The staff uses
images to check Adam’s eye-response patterns, which will show up on the Doppler scan. They
get a possible result as well a signs of a bleed, and Foreman breaks in on House, interrupting the
lecture. Foreman and Chase try to locate the bleed while House confronts Weber on his supposed
breakthrough in India and Weber finally figures out who is confronting him. House disputes
Weber’s study and Weber asserts House needs a live conscious person to test on. Meanwhile the
unconscious Adam has an orgasm in the hyperbaric chamber, and House induces a migraine in
himself to test Weber’s medicine. Weber’s medicine doesn’t work.
Foreman administers some medicine to help with House’s migraine but clearly he’s not operating at capacity. They conclude something has crossed his pain and pleasure receptors, which
will help Adam deal with the burn pain but may be signs of infection. Cameron suggests they
wait but House proposes they use maggots to eat the dead flesh from the burns. Wilson confronts House on how he inflicted the pain on himself to make up for pushing Stacy away. The
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staff report the maggots are working on the burns but the brain irregularities are still present.
House orders a risky lumbar puncture and Foreman reluctantly advises the parents to approve
the test and the mother blames the father.
Foreman goes ahead with the lumbar puncture and manages to pull it off, but the test is
negative. They have no other way to test for the telltale lesions so House goes into Adam’s room
and has the anesthesiologist wake him up. Adam is incredible pain but needs to know if he’s
feeling tingling – Adam doesn’t remember and House knocks him back out. After taking a shower,
House begins to hallucinate much to Cameron’s consternation.
House meets with the staff, fully recovered but a bit vague on what he took. House concludes
that Adam was taking anti-depressants which accounts for the seizure, and the excess serotonin
is the result of the medicine. ”Serotonin storm” is lethal, but treatable. House wants to speak to
Adam again but the parents have forbid it. So House confronts the parents to determine if Adam
was suffering from depression. The parents are sure he’s told them everything, and House has
no choice but to go back to differential diagnosis. He still can’t explain the orgasm and goes into
Adam’s chamber over the parent’s wishes.
The parents get Foreman, who intervenes, but House notices a mark on Adam’s wrist – a
burn. House confronts the parents with the fact Adam has a cigarette burn and nicotine stains.
Adam was trying to break his habit and using cheap anti-smoking meds with anti- depressants
in them.
Later Cuddy confronts House and wants to know if he took LSD. House (kind of) admits he did
to cure the migraine, and then took anti-depressants to short-circuit the hallucinations. Weber
barges in and complains House has reported to his corporate sponsors that his drug doesn’t
work and House acknowledges they’re even. And the father wonders if Adam will blame him for
the accident. Later, House is at home and has hired a hooker. . . as a less painful distraction.
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Skin Deep
Season 2
Episode Number: 35
Season Episode: 13
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David Shore, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
James Hayman
Gregory House)
Stephanie Venditto (Nurse Brenda)
Cameron Richardson (Alex), Tom Verica (Martin), Jim Hoffmaster
(Surgeon), John Burke (Austin), Donzaleigh Abernathy (Brady), Karis
Campbell (Pregnant Woman), James DuMont (George)
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House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction. Meanwhile, Wilson hopes the increased leg
pain in House’s leg is an indication his leg nerves are regenerating.
At a fashion show of teen models, one of the models, Alex, confronts the director Austin back
stage and complains of nausea. He blows it off and Alex’s father Martin persuades her to go on
after giving her some anti-anxiety pills. She reluctantly takes them then goes on to the runway
but starts to sway then attacks another model before collapsing.
House wakes up to find his leg with even more excruciating pain than usual. He gets to the
hospital where Wilson suggests the leg might be healing and House should go into rehab. House
refuses but quickly takes on his newest case and even sees his patient right away when he hears
the description ”teenage supermodel.” House suspects alcohol and the father reveals he gave
her a valium. The tox screen shows heroin and valium and they go into differential diagnosis
although House has more problems with his leg. They put her into a coma to pump her with
drugs to rapid-detox her while Foreman talks to the father and warns the process is dangerous.
The father agrees to the treatment as Alex starts to suffer from apparent withdrawal pains. Later
she flatlines and the nurses are forced to resuscitate her.
House shows up the next day and Martin confronts her and withdraws her consent, insisting
on a slow detox. House informs him they’re committed and there’s nothing they can do but
continue. House then deals with a clinic patient who is suffering from sympathetic labor pains
from his wife while Alex wakes up from the coma. She begins to repeat herself, suffering from
short-term amnesia and some kind of brain injury, possibly from House’s suggested treatment.
House points out the flatline wasn’t long enough for brain injury and suggests post-traumatic
syndrome because Martin is abusing her. He suggests a MRI to show that her brain is normal
and his diagnosis is correct.
Cuddy finds out House is out sick due to his leg pain and must deal with the man with the
sympathetic labor pains, who refuses to talk to her. Finally he reveals that his breast are enlarging – Cuddy gives the guy House’s personal page number. Foreman questions House on whether
his pain is affecting his judgment and House reluctantly concedes the point. Then he confronts
Martin directly, much to Foreman’s exasperation. During the MRI, Alex starts to convulse. House
calls Martin on how he ”promotes” his daughter by describing her sexually and warns if Martin
loves his daughter he has to be honest so they can diagnosis any psychological problems. Martin
admits it happened – once. House tells the staff but the MRI shows elevated proteins in her CSF,
which disprove all their theories.
House asserts they can’t report sexual abuse due to doctor-patient confidentiality, much to
Cameron’s dissatisfaction. House orders a brain biopsy then goes to House for help. Foreman
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goes to Alex to let her know what they’re doing next, overriding Martin. They proceed with the
biopsy while Cameron goes to Cuddy with her gripes. Wilson administers a MRI while Cuddy
confronts him about covering up the evidence of child abuse. She orders House to cooperate or
she’ll fire him.
While the staff debate the ethics, Wilson concludes the MRI shows no improvement and suggests Stacy’s absence is the cause of House’s various symptoms. The brain biopsy come back
negative and House wonders if a tumor is responsible and causing antibodies to attack her
brain. House comes up with a new ”test” – he pinches the tube to cut off the IV drip and cut off
the convulsions. Unfortunately that proves she has cancer.
House goes to Cuddy to ask for a favor – a shot of morphine into his spine to deal with the
pain. House reluctantly reveals that there is massive deterioration of the thigh muscle tissue.
Alex goes into the MRI under Wilson’s care but he concludes there’s no cancer. Wilson is more
concerned about what House is taking, but House ignores him and goes back into differential
diagnosis. House concludes that Alex is subconsciously faking it and they give her a new IV of
saline only. A social worker is meeting with Alex then points out there is no evidence and both
parties deny it. Cameron confronts Alex who reveals she seduced Martin after getting him drunk,
and he’s not the first person she’s slept with. Then Alex goes into convulsions.
Meanwhile House meets with George and his pregnant wife – they’re both suffering labor
pains and George’s body is filled with estrogen. From that he concludes that Alex is. . . male.
Alex has cancer. . . on her left testicle, and she’s a male-psuedo hermaphrodite and immune to
testosterone. Alex and her father clearly have some problems with the news.
House gives Cuddy an update on the case and then asks for another morphine shot – she
concludes his solving the case is linked to the pain. Then Cuddy reveals she gave him a fake
injection – a placebo. Later, while House plays the piano he considers his Vicodin and tries to go
without it, but eventually gives in.
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Sex Kills
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Episode Number: 36
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Matt Witten
David Semel
Gregory House)
Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson), Bobbin Bergstrom (ER Doctor)
Stephen DeCordova (Second Chief Surgeon), Greg Grunberg (Ronald
Neuberger), Jean St. James (Cecile Errington), Keri Lynn Pratt (Amy
Errington), Howard Hesseman (Henry Errington), Yvette Nicole Brown
(Stambler), Adam Busch (Tony), Noel Conlon (First Table East), Susan
Grace (First Table North), Marcie Lynn Ross (Second Table West), Craig
Patton (Second Table East)
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House takes the case of a man who experienced a seizure but wasn’t
aware it happened. When the man suffers a heart attack and needs a
heart transplant, the team races to diagnose a dead woman’s illness
so they can harvest her heart to save their living patient.
A family is playing bridge when the young girl Amy begins to have dizzy spells and complains
of stomach pains. Her father Henry takes her aside then begins to have some kind of seizure
then freezes up. Then he snaps back to normal without realizing anything happened.
Henry is at the clinic and Foreman is examining him for what he describes as an absent
seizure. Henry says he’s had no previous symptoms and Foreman suspects testicular cancer,
but House points out the flaws in the theory. House notes a possible abscess in his brain, or
possibly a STD, and orders treatment because if the tests are right, there’s nothing they can do.
House meets with Wilson and, noticing he’s buying chocolate, thinks he’s having an affair
despite Wilson’s denials. Then House has to deal with a clinic patient, Tony, who has a thing
about cows and wants a tranquilizer. Foreman talks to Henry who says it can’t be anything
sexual as he hasn’t had sex since his divorce. Foreman believes Henry and wants to treat him
for lymphoma – House figures Henry is lying and talks to him when the daughter Amy isn’t in
the room. Henry reveals he did have sex during a cheese- tasting festival with his wife after she
had several affairs, but didn’t want Amy to know. House starts giving him STD treatments and
Amy returns, and House and Henry lie to cover. But then Henry starts choking and coughing up
blood and their forced to intubate.
The new symptoms disprove lymphoma or STDs, and the staff run through other possibilities.
House notices Henry’s had acid reflux then takes him off the air. House figure it’s unpasteurized
goat cheese with bacteria, which multiplied in his stomach. House gives him treatment for it
until the tests come back then has another verbal sparring match with Wilson over his supposed
affair. Henry goes into cardiac arrest and House is called in – the test is positive but they got to
it too late and he won’t last the week.
House goes to the transplant board but they’re reluctant to approve due to Henry’s age of 65.
Foreman gets to give the news that the board voted no on the transplant. House admits he agrees
with the board but still signs Cameron’s letter of appeal. Then he meets with Tony again, who
supposedly got kicked in the ankle by his cow. House is skeptical of his claim even though Tony
agrees to any (painful) tests necessary. Cameron and House work to find a possible heart donor
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– they up with a 40 year old woman from a car accident, one with a bad heart that they can still
use rather then nothing at all.
Passing him off as the consulting physician, House meets with the woman’s husband, Ronald,
and checks out her health but she had a fever and stomach ache. House lays it out – he needs the
wife’s heart. The donor committee declares her heart non-viable but Foreman notices the medical
report says she has Hepatitis-C. House disputes the diagnosis based on the fever and stomach
pains. Ronald orders the ventilator to be shut down but House keeps it going and appeals to
Cuddy. Ronald wants her to be shut down and isn’t thrilled with how House deceived him, but
House needs the extra time to determine if the heart is usable. Amy confronts Ronald and thanks
him for his donation, and House appeals to Ronald to help her despite his feelings for House.
Ronald punches House in the gut. . . then agrees to let Henry have the heart.
Now House and his staff have to identify the illness and run her through a MRI as Ronald
looks on. They find a cyst but it’s not a gall bladder infection – House suspects a liver infection.
House orders 20 times the normal dosage since they don’t’ have to worry about patient viability.
Then it’s back to Tony, and House has figured from the blood tests that he eats cows. Tony
reveals that he needed the tranquilizers to deal with sexual arousal caused by his mother –
House gives him the medication. Then he talks to Wilson who hypothetically agrees he might be
having an affair and needs House as someone to have a serious conversation with – House blows
him off.
Laura’s heartbeat is irregular and House orders them to stop the medication rather then
render the heart unusable. Ronald changes his mind and now insists they have to use her heart
to save Henry. It’s back to differential diagnosis and they can’t do a biopsy. Cameron suspects
a toxin that targeted the liver and House goes to her house with Ronald. House finds several
possibilities, while Henry has further heart problems. House finds hair dye, sleeping pills, and
diet pills, all suggesting she lied to Roanld. None of them explain the fever, but Cameron finds
photos of naked teenage boys in her school desk. House figures she may have had gonorrhea
which caused scarring of the liver. The tests prove positive and they start giving medication, but
it’ll take 4-5 hours and Henry doesn’t have that long.
House goes ahead with the transplant, hoping to treat Henry for gonorrhea once they’ve got
him away from deaths’ door. House lies to Ronald long enough for them to get the heart. Cameron
prepares to give Ronald the news but he reveals Laura was distant and he had a one-night stand
where he got gonorrhea, which he thinks he gave to her and caused her death. Henry revives and
his reunited with ex- wife and it’s a happy reunion of sorts.
At home, House is making supper when Wilson shows up – he’s been kicked out by his wife
and needs somewhere to stay. He reveals that it’s his wife who was having the affair because he
wasn’t spending enough time with her. And House has a new roommate.
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Clueless
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Season Episode: 15
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Thomas L. Moran
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Yareli Arizmendi (Maid), Peter Birkenhead (Vincent Lambert), Eddie
Mills (Bob), Stephanie Erb (Charlotte Lambert), Samantha Mathis
(Maria)
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House believes a woman is trying to kill her husband and tries to find
the proof to confirm his suspicions. When Wilson moves in with House
after separating from his wife, he learns Wilson is a great cook.
A woman is getting out of the shower when a man grabs her from behind. He’s wearing a
stocking and hauls her into the bedroom where they struggle. But then he starts to choke and
she asks if she hurt him, then calls an ambulance for Bob. . . her husband.
House is having problems with his new roommate, Wilson, and tells him he’s going to have to
move out. At the hospital, Bob and her wife Maria are discussing his symptoms and their open
sex life with Cameron, who is okay with it and bets against House that the couple is happily
married. They start a barrage of treatment to diagnose why his threat is swollen.
Later House is meeting with a patient, Vincent, with urination problems but it turns out
he has herpes. He denies he’s only had sex with his wife but House is skeptical and provides
treatment for Vincent. . . and his wife, and his daughter, and her karate sensei. Cameron asks
Maria about their sexual role-playing and Maria admits there’s only so long a married couple can
keep things up without it.
The test come back revealing there’s lung scarring and reduced capacity but there’s no indication of the cause. House is confident there’ll be more symptoms and sure enough, they get a
page and find Babe is having a rash on his chest, driving him into uncontrollable scratching.
House and the staff are discussing Bob’s symptoms and ruling out various possibilities – they
wander into the restroom and Cameron has to come in as well. House concludes it might be
a heavy-metal concentration and House orders tests and a search of their house. While House
spars with Wilson over their home life and discovers he’s an excellent cook, Foreman finds ants
at the couple’s house but the tests for heavy metals prove negative. House orders treatment for
lead poisoning but also orders tests for food allergies. Bob continues to get worse, complaining
of extreme foot pain, while Vincent’s wife wants to file a complaint.
Bob goes into breathing arrest again and vomits and they have no choice but to trach him.
Foreman insists it’s lupus but House still believes it’s heavy-metal poisoning, but they can’t treat
without knowing the specific metal. House continues to take advantage of Wilson’s cooking skills
while Cuddy confronts him about Bob’s wife Charlotte. House gets an idea – Bob’s wife Maria
is responsible and is trying to kill him. House orders a search of the couple’s house without
Maria’s knowledge then confronts her directly. She agrees to let him search her purse and he
finds nothing. Cameron insists she’s innocent and Cuddy refuses to let House give her a cavity
search.
Undeterred, House watches Maria while Wilson goes on about his ongoing divorce. As they
watch, Bob has another respiratory arrest and Foreman suspects a stroke. He revives and Maria
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wonders if he’s wrong about her because of her concern and relief. House suspects the lupus
treatment suppressed his bone marrow and left him open to a viral infection. House orders
interferon treatment against the viral infection and Foreman warns Maria there could be side
effects, but there’s no choice.
Maria and Bob share a moment when he thinks he’s dying, and House orders Foreman to
increase the dosage. Then House meets with Vincent and his wife and reveals she has herpes
but doesn’t need an outbreak to spread the virus. When they fight, House suggests one of them
might have got it from a public toilet, and when Bob buys it he figures he’s the one who had the
affair. House sees their wedding ring and gets another idea – he orders a test for heavy-metal
poisoning with gold and orders Cameron to keep Maria out of the bathrooms.
House goes to his house for a vital piece of information where he finds out that Wilson has
taken pity on his maid, who was fired by his wife. She’s rearranged House’s closet and moved
a chest that he’s looking for. – his old engagement ring. Maria insists on going to the bathroom
over Cameron’s objections just as House arrives. He goes into the bathroom after her and tells
her that he’ll recover. The bad news is that he didn’t want her to wash her hands because she
has a toxin on it that reacts to the gold ring. She’s been using an uncommon arthritis medicine
found in Mexico (where the couple took a trip) that has gold on it, and she sprinkled it on his
cereal.
The staff is left to speculate why she might have tried to kill her, but they have no answer.
Maria is taken away by the police and Bob starts to respond to the treatment. Cameron pays off
on her bet. Foreman and Chase tell Bob what happened while House heads back to his apartment
to take more of Wilson’s food. . . and erase a message that there’s an apartment available for
Wilson.
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Safe
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Season Episode: 16
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Felix Enriquez Alcala
Gregory House)
Michelle Trachtenberg (Melinda), Mel Harris (Barbara), Lance Guest
(Lewis), Jake McDorman (Dan)
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Melinda, a troubled teenage girl who is immuno-compromised as a
result of the medications she must take after a heart transplant, has a
severe allergic reaction and goes into shock when her boyfriend visits
her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson continue to work out the problems
in their new living arrangement.
A boy, Dan, comes over to a girl’s house and has to clean thoroughly before the mother,
Barbara, will let him see her daughter Melinda. Dan has to don a mask and it becomes clear
Melinda is all but a prisoner in her own home. Melinda insists Dan remove her mask and he
reluctantly agrees – they kiss. Then he notices Melinda’s skin is blistering and she goes into
respiratory distress. He fumbles an injection which her mother manages to administer.
House gets up in the morning before Wilson and sets out dirty dishes to wash. Wilson lets
him know Cuddy has called about Melinda going into anaphylactic shock. Wilson thinks House
is trying to get him out after his apartment deal fell through. Wilson reveals the reaction occurred
when Melinda was in a clean room.
House and staff determine Melinda had a heart transplant and has been in a sterile environment for six months. Foreman believes that’s too long, and House figures someone’s lying.
Melinda insists Foreman should let her be released and Barbara admits she’s too protective but
with good reason. Cameron and Chase go over the house and figure Dan snuck in via the window
and had sex a few nights earlier. They get a sperm sample from Dan and the test show it’s not
responsible, but House is skeptical. He confronts Dan who reveals he took penicillin for a week,
and House points out she was allergic to it but it’s out of his system by the time they tested.
After House decides not to tell the parents, Cameron assures them it won’t happen again but
then Melinda goes into a seizure and Cameron determines it’s her heart. They try and determine
if it actually is congestive heart failure but the tests prove clean. Melinda is worried she’ll lose
her transplanted heart.
Wilson arrives home to find that House has left a stethoscope on the door, indicating he’s ”not
to be disturbed.” House finally lets him in hours later only to find no one was in. . . except House.
They discuss the case but Wilson ends up frustrated at his home life. Foreman and the parents
go to visit Melinda only to find that she’s gone. They conclude she’s gone outside and Foreman
heads for the roof and finds her halfway up the stairs. He talks with Melinda who reveals her
mother has always been over-protective. She agrees to go downstairs but Foreman notices her
left foot is dragging and she admits it feels ”weird.” Foreman notices a muscle twitch that’s an
indicator of paralysis. . . starting with the legs.
A DDX proves useless and they run more tests while filtering her blood for the blood cells
they believe are causing the problems. House returns home where Wilson confronts him about
the missing voice mails and House admits he erased the messages to keep Wilson there. House
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points out Wilson might as well stick around until he admits to himself his marriage is over, and
all they can do is laugh.
Melinda is getting progressively worse and refuses to see Dan. Foreman suspects mood swings
due to the medication but her mother asserts Melinda has given up. Melinda has another attack
and they intubate – the paralysis has reached her lungs. House concludes she has botulism
from food that Dan brought in and they start another test while House goes to confront Melinda.
Melinda’s parents take the staff off the case and put Cuddy in charge, and House goes in. Wilson
is providing a consult and Heart interrupts to remove the tube and demand an answer from
Melinda. She reveals he was on a non-penicillin antibiotic and Don went through tall grass,
picking up ticks that are giving her paralysis. House searches for ticks while Melinda has another
attack and Cuddy pulls House off. House appeals to the parents and Wilson recommends a
radical drug and they move her to the ICU.
En route to the ICU, Foreman takes Melinda into the elevator where House is waiting. House
shuts down the elevator and starts looking for the ticks again. When Foreman goes for him, they
struggle and she has another seizure – House convinces Foreman they need to treat the cause,
not the symptoms. Working together, they revive her then look for the ticks. They’ve looked over
every inch of skin and Foreman starts the elevator, but then House realizes where the tick is – in
her vagina. Melinda will recover while House confronts Wilson on how he moved Melinda to ICU
to secretly support House.
Melinda is ready to leave and Barbara cuts the cord and lets her go to school and see her
friends. House arrives home and he and Wilson share the couch and watch TV. Wilson admits
he’s finally called a divorce lawyer.
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All In
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David Foster
Fred Gerber
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Gregory House)
Laura Allen (Sarah), Daylon Reese (Child/Michael), Purva Bedi
(Teacher), Michelle Harrison (Nicole), Al Espinosa (Dr. Wells), Carter
Page (Ian), MacKenzie Astin (Alan)
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When a six-year-old boy is brought in with the same symptoms as another patient who died years ago under House’s care, House believes
the cases are identical and he can predict the course of the boy’s illness. Meanwhile, the clinic hosts a poker night to benefit the oncology
department.
At a giant heart exhibit at a children’s museum, a group of kids are on a tour. A young boy Ian
needs to go to the bathroom, but then the teacher goes into labor and notices the boy is bleeding
from the anus.
The clinic is hosting a charity poker tournament and House, Wilson, and Cuddy spar over
a hand. They’re interrupted when Ian is brought in and he’s Cuddy’s patient. House takes an
interest but Cuddy prefers to remain at the table, unconcerned. He folds and goes to see Ian,
and concludes his brain is losing connection to his body. He checks an old file then calls in his
staff to check out the case. He compares it to the case of a 73-year old woman from 12 years
ago, and predicts Ian will have kidney failure. The woman died after the same progression of
symptoms. Chase recalls that House checked out a patient with similar symptoms but it turned
out he didn’t have the same illness, and claims House is obsessed with the case and sees the
symptoms everywhere.
Cameron talks to the parents and Foreman finds purple papula like House predicted, but
nothing or anything else to explain the bleeding. The test for Erdheim-Chester proves negative.
House orders a kidney biopsy and meets with the patient, and determines that his kidneys are
shutting down as predicted.
It’s back to DDX as they consider the new symptoms but nothing matches up. Foreman
wants to call in Cuddy as Ian is her patient, but House gets Wilson to distract her by setting
him up to lose so she’ll stick around. Cameron tries to reassure the parents without much
success. Foreman and Cameron report they found a small mass on the pituitary gland, predicting
lymphoma. However, the tests for lymphoma show negative. House then breaks into the cafeteria
and grabs a coffee, while predicting the next symptom, liver failure, will kick in in 90 minutes.
House orders any and all possible treatments then calls Wilson to help him win to keep Cuddy
going.
The liver continues to function but Ian’s platelet count drops, but House believes it’s a good
sign for no other reason then it’s a different symptom. Ian goes into respiratory distress and
House adds it to his list of symptoms. He concludes that Ian is getting worse, and faster then
his original patient. They need an oncologist and House calls Wilson to get a consult. House
tells Wilson to go all in and he wins, much to House’s surprise. Wilson finally comes up when
House tells him what’s going on, and tries to determine why their interferon treatment caused
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the respiratory distress. Wilson determines that Ian might have Kawasaki’s, which doesn’t affect
the elderly and might account for Ian’s problems. They check his arteries for aneurysms and it
turns up negative, but they see a small mass in his heart. House orders a biopsy and probes
the heart, and Ian goes into coronary failure. They manage to revive him after eight minutes and
then House continues the probe.
As they continue the DDX Cuddy hears from the parents and comes in to check up and
order House off the case. House gives them the papula which is all they have, and they can
do maybe three tests on it. The tests prove negative for what they’re looking for and they’re
running out of samples. With only one test option remaining, House goes to see Ian and he and
Cuddy have a moment. House then goes outside where he talks to Wilson, who announces he
won the tournament with a pair of hidden aces. House orders a test for Erdheim-Chester, which
they’ve already tested for and proved negative. House figures it hadn’t reached Ian’s gastrointestinal tract yet but now it’s active. House overrides them and orders the last test, and it
turns out...positive. They give Ian the proper treatment and he revives. As they take down the
decorations for the poker tourney, House and Wilson play a hand and
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
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Sara Hess
Greg Yaitanes
Gregory House)
Kendall Clement (Anesthesiologist), K.T. Thangavelu (Surgeon), Julia
Ling (Anne), Alice Lo (Mrs. Ling), Jayma Mays (Hannah), Dahlia Salem
(Max)
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House has to work fast when a woman comes in with a life-threatening
case of insomnia. Meanwhile Cameron is angry at Foreman for stealing
an article she worked on.
A woman, Hannah, is trying to get to sleep with no success. She goes down to get a glass of
wine and the next morning her roommate goes down to find Hannah has overdosed on sleeping
pills.
House is dozing in the office away from home (and Wilson) when Cuddy interrupts him with
Hannah’s case – she hasn’t slept in 10 days. House is skeptical of her claim until Cuddy explains
even the sleeping pills didn’t help. Cameron is griping about Foreman writing about a case she
was working on when House interrupts. Cameron is more concerned about Foreman’s supposed
theft of her article while House suggests an optical disease that is disrupting signals to Hannah’s
brain.
Cameron tests her optic nerve and Hannah dozes off for 10 seconds in the middle of the test,
but has no memory of it. House wants to stress her brain by keeping her entirely awake and
the staff take shifts waking her up. Then she starts bleeding rectally and they have to give her a
painful colonostomy without sedating her. In the middle of the test she starts bleeding from the
nose.
The test of the nasal blood shows nothing and Cameron and Foreman feud over potential diagnoses. House notices she got a poison ivy rash about the same time Hannah stopped sleeping,
and orders a treatment for Wegener’s granulomatosis. House orders initial treatment then goes
to see a clinic patient, Mrs. Ling, who wants birth control pills for her PMS. House concludes she
has a cold and the daughter Anne is trying to get the pills.
Cameron confronts House about not signing off on her article and he points out she has high
expectations. Chase and Foreman administer the test but Hannah goes into rapid-eye movement
without realizing it. It disproves House’s diagnosis and it’s back to DDX where House figures the
treatment for her poison ivy suppressed her allergy to the dog her girlfriend Max gave her a month
ago. House goes ahead and allows a scratch test and Cameron asks Hannah if she had an allergic
reaction – Hannah eventually cops to it and admits she’s tired of Max and is secretly planning to
break up with her. Hannah complains about back pain and Cameron discovers purplish bruises
from internal bleeding. Foreman announces that the tests show her liver has shut down but they
can’t get a transplant without knowing it and Hannah only has six hours left. House approaches
Max and Hannah and gives them the facts and Max volunteers her liver to give Hannah time to
get diagnosed.
Now that they have 36 extra hours, and House overrides Cameron’s concerns about the ethical
dilemma. They have no choice but to run as many tests as possible. House goes to Cuddy to get
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permission for the transplant and feels her out on the ethical issues without actually saying
anything and she goes along with it rather then let Hannah die. Cuddy does what she can to
convince Max of the risks but she’s willing to go through it with the woman she loves.
Meanwhile, Cameron puts pressure on Hannah to tell Max. Wilson visits House to give him
grief about how both the articles were good from different sides, and he feels Foreman should
have told Cameron. House dismisses Wilson’s concerns while Cameron gets Hannah and Max
alone together before the operation. House realizes what’s up and interrupts them to sedate
Hannah. Cameron points out House wants Hannah to keep quiet so Max can prolong her life
and he can solve the puzzle. The surgery goes ahead while Cameron tells Cuddy about the article
and they’re interrupted when Max’s heart stops. House tells Cameron to get to work with her
patient, Hannah, and stop worrying about Max.
Max recovers and the tests prove negative for cancer, mushrooms, etc., and they have to turn
off the immuno-suppressant drugs to get a clear reading on what her problem might be. Mrs.
Ling and Anne are back and Mrs. Ling got her daughter’s birth control pills. House tells Mrs. Ling
her daughter is taking birth control pills (demonstrating his mastery of Mandarin) and leaves the
family to fight it out.
House finally figures out what’s going on – he reveals nodes under her right arm that demonstrate she has the Black Plague. She got it from fleas carried by the dog she was given, and their
treatments blocked the plague from fully manifesting. They order treatment while Cameron finds
out that Max knew about Hannah leaving her all the time, and figures donating the liver might
get her to stay out of guilt. Cameron apologizes to Foreman and suggests they both apologize,
but Foreman points out they’re not really friends, just colleagues, and he doesn’t have anything
to apologize for.
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House vs. God
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Season Episode: 19
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Doris Egan
John Showalter
Wilson), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron)
Will Rogers (Pastor), David Cheaney (Bus Stop), Michael Edwin
(Tax Accountant), Marco A. Martinez (Dry Cleaner), Sandra Marshall
(Agnes), Tamara Braun (Grace), William Katt (Walter), Thomas Dekker
(Boyd)
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House treats a 15 year old faith healer, while Wilson feels left out when
he finds out House has a weekly poker game.
A young faith healer, Boyd, is giving a service and ”heals” a woman, allowing her to walk as
his father Walter looks on. But as Boyd leads the congregation he has a series of spasms and
collapse to the ground.
House shows up for work and Wilson tries to collect his stuff, but he’s also peeved that House
doesn’t want him at his weekly poker party. Meanwhile Cameron and Foreman are giving Boyd
tests and he claims to talk to God and knows about Cameron’s ongoing feud with Foreman. The
tests show low sodium and diluted urine, and House is skeptical of Boyd’s religious beliefs and
God in general. House orders preliminary treatment and goes to talk to Boyd and finds him lucid,
then notices he’s drinking water from a previously opened bottle.
Wilson is meeting with a cancer patient, Grace, who wants to go off of her pain medicine.
House interrupts for a consult to basically confirm his own theory and rant about God. Boyd
wakes up and starts walking through the halls, singing hymns. He walks up to a water fountain
and sings out, then vaguely recovers. As Chase leads him back to his bed, Boyd sees Grace,
knows she’s sick, and lays hands upon her.
The staff conducts a new meeting and House goes with a MRI when Wilson barges in and
is upset that Grace is feeling better but she’ll crash when she realizes she hasn’t been cured.
Chase chats with Boyd while Foreman and Cameron have a chat about religion and Cameron
is dismissive of Foreman’s attempts to be friendly. Later Boyd comes in to talk with House who
accuses him of playing with people and Boyd talks about what God has said to him about House.
He concludes by telling House that God wants him to invite Wilson to his poker game.
House confronts Wilson who denies he said anything to Boyd. The MRI shows an abnormal
area showing tubular sclerosis and they prepare to operate – House believes the growth is responsible for Boyd’s ”symptoms.” Wilson talks to Grace who has gained a hope for the future and
Wilson tries to caution her. Foreman and Chase give Boyd and Walter the news and he refuses
surgery. House asks Wilson to talk to Boyd and Wilson agrees if House will let him into his poker
game. House does so and Wilson convinces Boyd that if he’s truly a saint then his humility would
let him agree to the tests.
At his house that night, House is playing the piano when Wilson comes in and reveals that
the tests show Grace’s tumor has shrunk. House demands all of her records and orders her to
be kept away from Boyd – she does so anyway. House realizes the only way Boyd will agree to the
surgery if they can prove Grace is dying and Boyd didn’t heal her. The staff now tries to diagnose
her cure and check out her home while House orders Boyd to stay for 24 hours.
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Wilson shows up at the poker game and they play while House provides guidance to his team
over the phone, interrupting his winning streak. At her house, Chase finds that Grace has a
boyfriend and slips out just ahead of her boyfriend returning. House figures that Grace told
Boyd about the poker game when she learned it from Wilson, who is her boyfriend.
Boyd is preparing to check out with his father’s permission while Wilson storms out after
accusing House of hating religion because he always has to know the rules and be in control.
They’re interrupted by a call – Boyd is running a fever. It’s back to differential diagnosis and
House concludes the tubular sclerosis isn’t responsible and it’s time for a lumbar puncture but
Boyd refuses man’s treatment. They appeal to Walter but he prefers to leave it in God’s hands.
House gets Wilson to intervene but then figures out that Boyd had a herpes virus which he
got from sex and gave to Grace which attacked her tumor and caused it to go into temporary
remission. House finally gets Walter to order Boyd to undress and they find the tell-tale sore.
Later Boyd meets with House and wishes him good luck with his life of certainty. Grace is still
happy even though the cancer is coming back. And House and Wilson are good.
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Euphoria (1)
Season 2
Episode Number: 42
Season Episode: 20
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Matthew V. Lewis
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Chil Kong (Morgue Tech), Chioke Dmachi (Baby Shoes), Loreni Delgado
(Haines), Calvin King (Transvestite), Guy Nardulli (Coughing Cop),
Scott Michael Campbell (Joe)
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When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When
Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine
the cause of the illness before Foreman’s condition takes the same
path.
Two policemen pursue a suspect, Baby Shoes, through the streets in a car chase. He gets
out and makes a run for it, and ends up hiding in a trash can at a dead end. The officer Joe
tells the guy to get out but starts laughing uncontrollably. The criminal goes for his gun, shoots
the officer, and runs. A fragment of the bullet enters his brain and Joe lies in his own blood,
laughing.
Foreman receives a congratulations from his father about the article he stole from Cameron,
but Foreman is less than enthused. House interrupts with the cop’s case and they discuss the
symptoms and suspect heightened CO levels. House orders him put into a hyperbaric chamber
while Foreman checks out the cop’s home which is a mess and takes a variety of samples. He
also finds marijuana. House checks out the precinct and notices a cop coughing near an air
conditioner. Foreman and House disagree over the cause and Joe starts to recover.
They administer more tests and realize that Joe is blind – something is disrupting the signals
from his optic nerves. They wonder if bullet fragments are responsible but can’t do a MRI without
possibly pulling out the bullets. They administer an angio while it becomes clear Foreman has
issues with the police in general, as well as knowing the bullet is ferrous. There are indications of
clotting and they discuss it down in the morgue. House decides to shoot a corpse to test the bullet
type and how the MRI will affect it. As they check, House wonders about Foreman’s attitude as
he’s acting increasingly frivolous. They run the MRI and the bullets are pulled out through the
corpse’s skull.
The MRI is out of condition for two weeks and they use ultrasound to look for clots. Joe
starts bleeding from the eyes and goes into shock as Foreman starts to laugh hysterically. They
put Foreman into quarantine with Joe and he vehemently denies there’s anything wrong. House
brings in a portable MRI to scan Foreman’s head and starts taking blood tests from the staff.
They find a lesion near the center of the brain that controls euphoria but are stumped as to the
cause. House also wonders why Cameron is so willing to give Foreman a break now that he’s
sick.
Chase takes samples from Foreman, who is insistent on being involved. He comes up with
a diagnosis of a staph infection but House is skeptical. House wants to do a biopsy on Joe’s
brain but the previous treatment prevents them from doing so. House plans to do the biopsy
on Foreman and talks to him, noticing that Foreman isn’t laughing. House gives him a release
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to sign and has to show him the MRI to get him to agree. Foreman insists on being treated for
the staph infection he suspects and House reluctantly agrees. They insert a oyama reservoir to
administer the anti-staff medicine and House decides to do his biopsy while he’s in there.
That night Joe and Foreman have a heart-to-heart and Joe wants them to pray. The tests
prove negative and House orders more tests but refuses to let anyone go to Joe’s apartment.
Wilson notes that House is feeling guilty and House blows him off. Joe is starting to experience
more pain and Foreman wonders why the biopsy shows nothing. Foreman insists Cameron or
someone should go to the apartment and he gets mad and sticks her with a needle, exposing her.
He tells her she has to either go to the apartment, or end up in quarantine with her.
While House and Chase go over the tests and Joe is in increasing pain, Cameron breaks into
the apartment. Foreman administers more morphine to Joe, putting him dangerously close to
death, and House refuses to intervene. But it quickly wears off and as Foreman looks on, Joe
screams in pain as the damage spreads to the pain center of the brain. They put Joe into a coma.
House realizes that something is up when Foreman doesn’t react to Cameron’s absence.
House goes to Joe’s apartment and confronts Cameron, pointing out the chance of infection
from the needle is small. He wonders what Foreman would have to do to get Cameron to hate
him, then takes the bag full of samples from her. House suspects something is up when he
notices Joe has three loaves of bread. He sends Cameron out to feed the pigeons and they react
quickly, confirming that Joe has been feeding them. Cameron finds the bucket where Joe has
been collecting the guano, and cryptococcus neoformans has been building up in it then spread
to Joe and Foreman.
Cameron waits for the test results while Chase and Foreman discuss Cameron’s reaction.
When she gets the results she runs for the quarantine chamber and tells them the tests for
cryptococcus neoformans are negative – House is wrong. Joe goes into defib and Foreman tries
to revive him without success.
(to be continued. . . )
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Euphoria (2)
Season 2
Episode Number: 43
Season Episode: 21
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Wednesday May 3, 2006 on FOX
Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Shore
Deran Sarafian
Chase), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron)
Amber DeMarco (Rose), Leigh-Allyn Baker (Claire), Scott Michael
Campbell (Joe), Charles S. Dutton (Rodney Foreman)
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Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms
as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing imminent
death, he calls his father who comes to his son’s side. As it comes
down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness
is in the police officer’s apartment.
House goes to Cuddy to get a bone saw to get a brain sample of Joe’s brain. Cuddy refuses,
concerned about the bio-safety hazard. She’s called in the CDC but it’ll take three days and
Foreman only has 36 hours. House goes to Foreman in quarantine and walks him through an
autopsy. Cuddy calls in security but before they can get in, Foreman goes blind without realizing
it and fails to get a sample.
House and his remaining staff go over what they’ve tried so far and what they’ve eliminated,
and House orders multiple treatments even though it’ll mess up their tests. House goes to Joe’s
apartment and with Foreman’s help over the phone walks through what Foreman did while using
his rat. Foreman then calls his father while House watches the rat, waiting for it to manifest
symptoms.
While he waits, House meets with a clinic patient whose mother reports she’s been having
epileptic fits. House concludes the girl has ”gratification disorder.” Foreman recovers his sight but
now they don’t know which medicine helped, and his pancreas shuts down from the treatments.
House suggests they stop the treatment to buy time and Foreman agrees, and then his father
Rodney shows up. House takes him to Cuddy after telling Rodney about the autopsy that could
save his son’s life. Cuddy explains the situation and Rodney accepts it.
Rodney then talks to Eric and Eric lies to him about the painful part of his upcoming death.
House is planning how to get to Joe’s corpse while Eric and his father discuss their family,
particularly his mother who has Alzheimer’s. They argue over Rodney’s religious beliefs and Eric
is skeptical – Rodney promises to pray for him.
Foreman gets worse and faster than Joe did – House seizes on the discrepancy and notes that
the rat still isn’t showing symptoms and may be the key. Cuddy goes to visit Eric and he’s angry
she isn’t letting the autopsy go ahead to save his life. House arrives and notes that the cop had
Legionnaire’s disease – it slowed down the fatal disease in Joe. House exposes him to it after Eric
refuses to be infected with Legionnaire’s.
Cameron monitors Foreman as his temperature drops and the pain doesn’t increase. House
pursues the rat angle and wonders why Cameron isn’t getting sick as well. He concludes that
Foreman’s body isn’t recognizing the disease but then the Legionnaire’s triggered the antibodies.
House thinks the answer is listeria but the treatment will kill the Legionnaire’s as well. Foreman
insists House do a white-matter biopsy on him despite the risks. House refuses, and Foreman
reluctantly concedes for now.
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House goes to confront Rodney with the fact they’ll be putting Foreman in a coma. Rodney
agrees to let House make the medical decisions, trusting Eric’s description of him as the best
doctor Foreman knows. Foreman wants Cameron to act as his medical proxy and apologizes for
stealing her article. Cameron refuses to accept his apology but agrees to act as his proxy. She
tells House they need to do the biopsy but House refuses.
Chase talks to Rodney and advises him to tell Eric he loves him. Rodney visits his son in
quarantine and assures him, asserting he knows it’ll turn out okay. They have a tender moment
and then Cameron induces the coma. . . but not before accepting his apology.
Wilson meets with House to tell him to do the biopsy since Eric only has four hours left.
Cameron comes in to order the biopsy, revealing she is his proxy. Rodney is upset that Eric
didn’t trust him but Cameron is insistent. House asks for one hour to go back to Joe’s apartment
and find a dead animal they can do a biopsy on. House goes in without a suit and finds a
blind pigeon. The pigeon flies away but he spots a leaking pipe and concludes the water for
Joe’s marijuana is on a timed system. House figures out it’s on a separate water system and
determines the culprit is the Naegleria parasite...but Cameron has already determined that from
the biopsy she ordered.
Cameron tells Rodney that Eric can be cured of the disease. . . but they don’t know how the
biopsy affected him. Foreman eventually wakes up and his brain is fine...but he can’t wiggle his
left toes and when he tries to raise his right arm he raises his left instead.
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Forever
Season 2
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Season Episode: 22
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Liz Friedman
Daniel Sackheim
Gregory House)
Hillary Tuck (Kara Mason), Toni Lewis (NICU Nurse), Kip Pardue (Brent
Mason), Kevin Moon (EMT)
HOU-222
A young mother has a seizure while bathing her newborn son and
nearly drowns him. House and the team have two cases at one time
as they try to save the infant and determine the cause of the mother’s
seizures.
Brent wakes up in the morning to hear the baby crying. He manages to wake himself up
despite a stomach bug as his wife Kara comes in with their baby, who has colic. He leaves for
work but vomits halfway up the stairs. He comes back up to the bathroom to find his wife giving
the baby a bath but she’s passed out and the baby is under the water.
Kara and her baby Mikey are taken by EMTs to the clinic where Chase attends. House and
Wilson come in and discuss how Wilson will be going to dinner with Cuddy to discuss funding.
Cameron is waiting for House to announce Chase is working the NICU on Cuddy’s orders and
Foreman is recovering but shows up and looks great, although House is skeptical. House is not
impressed with Kara’s seizure symptoms until Cameron reveals they’ve already eliminated all the
obvious causes.
House sneaks into Cuddy’s office to meet her when she comes in and they spar over her ”date”
with Wilson. House realizes Chase asked for the assignment to NICU and concludes he wants to
get away from House. Cameron and Foreman discuss how he might have to teach, but Foreman
is comfortable with it after having been given a second chance. The baby’s lung collapses while
Kara has another seizure in the MRI.
Mother and child have recovered for now and the staff eliminate most symptoms, but House
picks up on Foreman’s suggestion–myelomas meningitis. Chase is skeptical of House’s diagnosis
and says he needed a break from dishonest patients, like the drug-dealing cop that almost got
Foreman killed. House doesn’t believe that and tells Chase to give the baby ECMO treatment to
remove and recycle his blood.
House is going through Cuddy’s garbage and shows Wilson his findings – Red Clover - which
leads House to suspect cancer and she wants Wilson for a consult, but is interrupted when
Cameron determines Kara’s blood isn’t clotting and she is also an alcoholic. When Foreman goes
along with him and prepares to put her in a coma before she gets the DTs, House is furious and
tells Foreman to get over it and be his old argumentative self.
Wilson and Cuddy go on their dinner date and they have an awkward chat over Wilson’s
divorce until they end up discussing. . . nothing else. Kara wakes up while Foreman determines
Brent and Kara met in AA. House and Foreman are discussing the case when House notices the
baby is missing and Kara is trying to smother him.
The lack of oxygen damaged Mikey’s lungs, and Brent won’t accept that Kara tried to kill
their son. Cameron concludes Kara is psychotic when she talks about ”voices” and she faked
a seizure when her husband caught her trying to kill Mikey, but House believes it’s a physical
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ailment. While Cameron expresses her own frustration with Foreman over his niceness, Wilson
administers a cancer test to Cuddy’s spoon from the dinner and House suggests Wilson wants it
to be a date.
Mikey’s heart rate is increasing while Kara has another seizure according to the readings,
but she doesn’t react and they conclude she’s in encephalopathic delirium as a result of vitamin
deficiency – Pellagra. The baby goes into defib and then dies.
Foreman asks Kara some questions when she wakes up and she remembers attacking her
son. He finally tells her that Mikey died and she starts crying then vomits blood. They try to
diagnose her new symptoms while Chase tries to overcome his guilt over prescribing the wrong
treatment for Mikey. House latches on to something and asks Brent for Mikey, who is holding
his dead son. House needs the baby for the biopsy to diagnose the mother, and confronts Brent
over the fact he was drunk rather than had the stomach flu, and avoided facing the facts about
Kara’s psychosis.
Brent agrees, and House then confronts Chase and reveals Chase has been working for extra
cash and he was cut out of his father’s will. Chase says a prayer over Mikey’s body before
doing the autopsy. Wilson reveals Cuddy is negative for cancer and Chase discovers the baby’s
intestines showed flattened vili. House realizes the baby and mother had celiac disease, which is
triggered by stress. The disease damaged their small intestines, which couldn’t absorb the proper
vitamins. Chase’s treatment didn’t work because the same damage to the baby’s vili prevented it
from absorbing the medicine. And it led to Kara having stomach cancer.
House then meets with Cuddy and reveals that her estrogen levels are too high – she’s taking
fertility meds with Red Clover as an herbal booster. Cuddy’s trying to get pregnant and is looking
for a donor, and she figures House will tell Wilson so they can laugh it up. Kara refuses to let
anyone touch her and House talks to her. She doesn’t want to live and House accepts that, telling
Foreman that it’s the same as what he went through and he can’t go back to calmly accepting
things.
Brent goes in to see Kara and asks her to ask Mikey for forgiveness for him when she meets
him. House doesn’t reveal to Wilson what Cuddy was up to. And Foreman works to master his
knowledge of medical terminology again.
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Who’s Your Daddy?
Season 2
Episode Number: 45
Season Episode: 23
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Lawrence Kaplow, John Mankiewicz
Martha Mitchell
House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman)
D.B. Sweeney (Dylan Crandall), Krista Lewis (Flight Attendant), Owen
Pearce (Max), Tuffet Schmelzle (Young Mother), Christopher Carley
(John Linehan), Aasha Davis (Leona), America Olivo (Ingrid)
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A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from hallucinations
as a result of the tragedy is brought to House by his former bandmate
who recently found out the girl is his daughter. Although House fears
his friend is being scammed, he takes the case. As he works his way
through the girl’s lies so he can diagnose and treat her, he’s forced to
tell a few lies of his own.
Leona and her father Crandall are taking a plane flight and talking about her mother and how
she survived eight months after Katrina and found out Crandall is her father. Then she starts to
hallucinate that the plane is flooding and collapses.
House is hobbling around his apartment in pain and can’t get to sleep. Come the morning,
he’s about to take morphine when Cuddy calls with Leona’s case –she went into cardiac shock
but didn’t have a heart attack. Dylan recognizes House – they’re old friends. House suspects
arrhythmia and plans to induce it, much to Cameron’s distaste. House goes to Crandall and
admits he’s skeptical about Leona being his daughter – he figures Leona is scamming Crandall.
They induce arrhythmia and eventually pinpoint the part of the heart causing the hallucinations
and administer treatment.
House goes to Cuddy after reviewing her choice of sperm donors and isn’t satisfied with any
of them. Leona hallucinates her mother in the next bed with water pouring off of her and they
conclude she isn’t cured. House goes with an atypical seizure and suspects the heart attack is
unrelated and the hallucination is caused by the resulting pain. To test Leona’s response to pain,
they put her in the MRI and then start hurting her. House also questions her over Crandall being
her father but Leona refuses. She eventually hallucinates in response to the pain.
House is still having trouble with his leg and determines Leona needs bone marrow due to
auto-immune deficiency. Crandall demands that House use his bone marrow and refuses to let
House do a paternity test. House meets with a mother and her child whose skin is turning red,
and House quickly figures out the boy has been sitting on a red couch when wet. He’s interrupted
by Cuddy who needs him to give her a fertility injection and she can’t reveal her secret to anyone
else. House does so as they spar over her plans.
Leona is hooked up for more tests and House and Wilson discuss Crandall but they’re interrupted when a thick black ooze emerges from Leona’s mouth. They determine it contains stool
samples – there’s a blockage in her digestive system and it’s working in reverse. They start a
liver biopsy and House advises Crandall not to get attached to her. Wilson and House talk about
the case and Wilson wonders why House cares. House reveals he had once gotten involved with
Crandall’s fiance.
They’re in the middle of the liver biopsy when House calls them in to stop after listening to a
CD of her grandfather who was having trouble making out pitch. House also determines she has
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iron deposits in her melanin like her grandfather and proposes another treatment once Foreman
confirms the iron deposits.
House then meets with a new intern, Patrick, in Cuddy’s office, much to her surprise. She
soon figures out Patrick is one of her proposed donors and makes a hasty exit. Chase gives
Leona the treatment but the iron damages her lungs and she goes into respiratory distress.
House figures since the iron is supposed to be discharged as waste but Leona’s waste system
isn’t working, the iron went to her lungs and attached to mold, destroying her lungs. Foreman
suspects fungus and House goes with a broad-spectrum treatment.
House gives Cuddy her next injection and suggests she finds someone she trusts. She suspects he’s talking about himself but House is dismissive. Wilson then goes to House, who is
getting a leg massage from Ingrid, and Cameron shows up to reveal Leona’s treatment isn’t
working. It’s back to diagnostic and House determines Leona was lying about where she was so
he goes to wake her up and question her via eye blink. She finally admits she was lying and
writes down where she was at.
House reveals to the staff that Leona was at a recording studio in New Orleans after the
flooding and they figure the soundproofing absorbed moisture and they identify the right mold.
Crandall sits with Leona while Cuddy says thanks to House for the injections and then leaves.
Leona starts to revive and House reveals he lied to Crandall and he ran the paternity test – he
tells her Crandall is her father. But later at his apartment he reads the paternity test, which
confirms Leona isn’t Crandall’s daughter. And House has finally taken that shot of morphine.
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No Reason
Season 2
Episode Number: 46
Season Episode: 24
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David Shore
David Shore
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman),
Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Obie Sims (Cuddy’s Patient), Michelle Clunie (Judy), Chris Tallman
(Vince), Elias Koteas (Jack Moriarty)
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As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with
a giant, swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into
House’s office and shoots him. House continues to treat his patient
from his ICU hospital bed with the shooter, who has been shot by
hospital security and hand-cuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When
the after-effects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to
question his own ability to diagnose properly. As his patient’s body
deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust
his team to find a way to solve the case.
House tends to a man, Vince, with a swollen tongue and a temperature of 103. Foreman isn’t
concerned and prepares to take off when a man comes in, identifies House, pulls out a gun, and
shoots him. House stares up at the man who deliberately aims and shoots again,
House wakes up two days later to find Cameron at his bed but he’s more interested in the
patient with the swollen tongue. The shooter is brought in – he was shot by a security guard.
House staggers out to visit Vince but Cameron figures they’ve got it under control. House then
goes to Cuddy and reveals that his leg pain feels better, even without the morphine. House
assumes something went wrong with the surgery.
House then wakes up the shooter and asks why he tried to kill him. The man says he wanted
House to live and suffer. House responds by turning off the man’s morphine. Foreman and Chase
are doing a biopsy which triggers a seizure, and the staff go to House. House tells them to do a
lumbar puncture but Foreman warns against the risks. Chase notes that the patient is now in
more danger and House agrees with him.
That night the shooter reveals House treated his wife, who lived. But the man notes he’d told
House he had an affair but it had nothing to do with his wife’s illness and House told her about
the affair anyway. The shooter reveals she then killed herself over the news.
House goes out and checks in on Vince and meets his wife Judy. Judy knows about House
from a friend he treated and isn’t that impressed. House wonders why the attractive Judy married
the relatively homely Vince and asks if she had an affair. She tells him she’s always been faithful.
The lunbar puncture goes well but when they roll Vince over, they see he’s bleeding into his eye,
which pops out of the socket. At the same time House starts bleeding after he tears out his
stitches.
They put House back together and he spars with the shooter over his affair – the man reveals
his wife killed herself in their garage. House then goes out for a taco lunch to discuss the case,
orders some tests, and when he mentions the wife Judy, Cameron reveals Vince is a widower.
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House is talking with Wilson and wonders if ”Judy” was a hallucination. House still is worried
that the surgery caused neural damage and then confronts Cuddy, asking why a surgeon administered ketamine and put him in a disassociative coma. Cuddy reveals she ordered the treatment
as a chance to give House back his leg, but he’s upset that she did so without his approval.
Cuddy questions him about neurological symptoms and House denies anything is wrong.
They don’t find with the tests and House wonders if blood in the lining might be causing the
fever. Chase concludes the tongue is connected to the lymphatic glands where wastes might be
discharging. The shooter challenges House on Chase’s diagnosis, noting that House might be
getting dumber. Vince is back out of post-op but the recent surgery didn’t help. Chase takes
Vince to the bathroom where he starts bleeding from the groin.
House considers the new symptom and first suggests kidney issues, incorrectly. Then Foreman suggests testicular cancer and again House is worried that he has brain damage because he
missed that. Wilson suggests House wants a reason to be unhappy and defends Cuddy. House
wonders why Wilson is defending Cuddy and figures out Wilson knew about Cuddy’s plan as
well. House confronts Cuddy and Wilson and angrily slugs Wilson. And then House realizes he
hallucinated the whole thing, he’s back in his bed, and the shooter taunts him.
The staff report the tests are negative and House tries out his new legs and then wonders how
he got to their meeting – he doesn’t remember how they got from the ICU to the hallway. House
then goes to Cuddy and takes himself off the case, admitting he’s blacking out. But Cuddy then
confirms House’s previous ”hallucination” and determines that now he’s hallucinating. He’s back
in his bed, as the shooter looks on.
House has lunch with the shooter at the taco place and wonders what is and isn’t a hallucination, although he’s pretty sure it’s a hallucination at the moment. The shooter suggests he just
keeps tossing out suggestions and his team will correct him if he’s wrong. House questions the
basics of the biopsy and suggests they do surgery but Chase believes that will kill Vince. House
comes up with a way to do the surgery using a robot and uses Cameron to demonstrate it to
Vince. The demonstration is successful and House tells Vince he has no choice.
House is back in bed going over the tests and the shooter taunts him over the lack of meaning
in his life. House hallucinates that he’s in a car with Judy as she committed suicide, then turns
with a tear in his eye and apologizes.
House goes into the surgery room and points out the staff never pulled him off the case, and
never challenged him on any of his theories. House confronts them and then tries to stop the
surgery. He thinks he needs to push the hallucination to its limits and tries to operate on Vince,
cutting into him and killing him. Everyone looks on in horror. . . but then a bullet falls out of
Vince’s hand. House picks it up then wakes up to realize he’s being rushed to E.R. after being
shot. House tells them to tell Cuddy to administer the ketamine.
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Season Three
Meaning
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Episode Number: 47
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Lawrence Kaplow, David Shore
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Remy Thorne (Kid), Terry Rhoads (Artie), Eamon Hunt (Surgeon), Edward Edwards (Richard), Carter Jenkins (Mark), Clare Kramer (Caren),
Kathleen Quinlan (Arlene)
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After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on
two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who drove his wheelchair
into a swimming pool and a woman who became paralyzed after a yoga
session.
At a family swim party, the father Richard is paralyzed in a wheelchair, and non-responsive
to his family. Then he drives the wheelchair into the pool.
House is jogging to work, while Cuddy and Wilson discuss the paralyzed man’s case among
others to find one to hit him with on his first day back since his recovery. Cuddy wonders if the
ketamine treatment might wear off but House believes it’s permanent. They give him the case
of a woman practicing yoga who apparently snapped her neck and went into paralysis but the
x-rays show no spinal damage. House is interested, but also notices Richard’s case and ignores
the report of brain cancer, deciding to take both cases.
House starts with his staff on diagnosis of the yoga woman and then Richard. House has
the man undergo tendon surgery to make him more comfortable while House talks with the wife
Arlene and son Mark. Mark believes it was an accident but House suggests it might be suicide,
but that means his dad is still there. Cameron interrupts to tell him something about the woman
but is more interested in House actually meeting with his patient and his family. House finally
discovers that the paralyzed woman, Caren, can move and tells her to get out despite her claims
that she’s not faking.
Later Wilson asks House about his meeting with the patient’s family and wonders if House is
looking for a normal case to give himself meaning after his shooting and hallucination. House
wonders why he didn’t feel anything when the wife thanked him, but he’s called in to check
Caren, who is having tightness of the chest. House thinks she’s bluffing again and tries to bluff
her out of it and then realizes she has a congested heart and starts draining off the fluid.
They have to continue draining the blood off and go back to differential diagnosis. House
suspects the paralysis was delusional but she also had a heart condition and orders exploratory
surgery. Cuddy meets with House to question him on the exploratory surgery and tells him to
stop, as well as reduce Richard’s morphine drip.
Wilson confronts House on his issues again and after the tests prove negative, the exploratory
surgery on Caren is on. House notices that her toenail is discolored and cancels the surgery. It
turns out she has scurvy due to a lack of Vitamin C. Richard is being released and House and
Arlene talk out her intent to keep caring for her husband and House wonders how it reflects on
him. But as she lifts him out of bed House hears him making gurgling noises and realizes he’s
talking.
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House orders a new differential diagnosis on Richard and Wilson suspects House is bored
now that he’s ”normal” and trying to come up with a mystery. As he leaves he notices pain in his
formerly bad leg.
House’s staff put together all the symptoms and House suspects a pancreatic cyst and orders
an ultrasound, but Foreman warns Richard’s throat will collapse. House dismisses his concerns
and has Cameron get Arlene’s consent. Chase begins the procedure but Richard’s throat collapses and they’re forced to trach him and remove the probe.
Richard recovers but they determine the pancreas was clean. House suspects first cancer
and then notes the throat locked down rather than collapsed, and there’s a lesion disrupting the
signals. House wants to go into Richard’s brain and Cameron tells him to go to Arlene himself.
He does so and hints it might help him recover, and Arlene approves, saying Richard’s already
dead. They run the test but notice bleeding from his ear–he’s hemorrhaging from the brain.
The staff confronts House and he goes over the symptoms again. First Cameron and then
Foreman refuse, but Chase goes along with it. Cuddy calls House on it and accuses him of
playing a hunch, then says she’ll be sending Richard home the next morning. House goes to
Wilson and reveals his leg hurts and wants Vicodin, but Wilson thinks it’s middle-age pains and
House is either overreacting or trying to scam him. House goes jogging and ends up trying to cool
down in a fountain, then figures it out.
House goes to Cuddy’s house via the window and reveals that Richard has hyperthamlic
disregulation and tried to cool off by driving himself into the pool–he has Addison’s disease.
Cuddy is still skeptical and refuses to okay the cortisol treatment necessary to cure Richard.
The next morning Richard is discharged and House acknowledges to Wilson that Cuddy was
right and he has no reason to believe he’s right. But Cuddy is watching Arlene take her husband
out and administers a cortisol injection. She tests him for reaction and initially he shows something, but as they get in the elevator Richard reacts, releasing his safety belt and getting up to
walk.
Cuddy goes to tell House but Wilson tells her not to do it, because all he did was get lucky. She
reluctantly agrees. At the end House sneaks into Wilson’s office and writes himself a prescription
for Vicodin.
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Cane & Able
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Episode Number: 48
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Daniel Sackheim
Gregory House)
Stephanie Venditto (Nurse Brenda), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Sheryl Lee (Stephanie), Johnny Sneed (Todd), Edward Edwards
(Richard), Skyler Gisondo (Clancy)
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House and the team treat a young boy who claims there is a tracking
device in his neck and believes he has been the subject of alien experimentation. Cameron is outraged when she learns Cuddy and Wilson
have been lying to House about the diagnosis on his last case.
A boy in bed, Clancy, calls out for a drink and refuses to go bed. She finally gets him settled
down but then he calls out to have his TV on and talks to his dad who also tells him to asleep.
Clancy is worried about someone coming to get him. After his dad leaves, Clancy turns on the TV
but it starts to flicker, the room shakes, and a bright white light shines in through the window.
The next morning the dad comes into find Clancy gone. They search the house, unaware he’s
lying on the yard bleeding from the rectum.
House goes out for a run but first takes some of his purloined vicodin. Arriving at the hospital,
he starts to show some pain and Cuddy and Wilson notice as he comes in. Cuddy wants to tell
House about how he cured Richard the brain cancer patient, but Wilson advises that she don’t
so they can break House from his addiction to puzzles. Clancy has been brought in and they
review the symptoms, including Clancy’s tale of alien abduction. Chase, a UFO believer, runs
some bleeding disorder tests on Clancy, who says he has a metal chip on the back of his neck.
Chase plays along with him and pretends to remove the chip, but Clancy sees through it.
Chase doesn’t find anything but House has Foreman run the test for a bleeding disorder and
it comes up positive. House still thinks Chase screwed up but Cameron suggests the bleeding is
on a pattern. Chase goes to run the tests and finds Clancy missing. Chase tracks him down to a
room where Clancy is trying to remove his imaginary chip. . . but it’s not imaginary.
The chip is made out of titanium, like a surgical pin that Clancy had removed years ago.
Chase wonders how the chip got to his neck but House figures it moved through the body and
notes that Clancy’s blood is clotting again. While they run more tests, Cameron is downstairs
and runs into Richard undergoing physical therapy. She didn’t know about his recovery and
Cuddy comes in and Cameron figure out what’s going on. Cameron confronts Cuddy over it and
Cuddy agrees to run a test and if the leg pain is her fault, she’ll tell House the truth.
Chase runs another blood test and Clancy starts to hallucinate and have a hypertensive
crisis. Cameron suggests the clotting depends on how excited Clancy is. They’re going to do an
operation to check Clancy’s heart but it shows clean. House blows up the recording ever larger
and spots some inaction.
Cuddy confronts House about getting the tests and he ripostes by asking her about her pregnancy. He goes to check the tests and they discover the genes in his heart don’t match those in
the rest of his body.
The team runs a differential diagnosis and Cameron suggests they run a test to ”light up” the
discrepant DNA. Cameron confronts Wilson and Cuddy over their lie to House. The team run the
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test and Foreman suspects something is up when Cameron’s diagnoses are better than House’s.
Cameron tells him what’s going on but the tests prove negative for a neurological problem. They
run a catheter up Clancy’s leg to fix the heart problem and remove the damaged cells, then put
him to bed for the night.
Wilson gives House some vicodin and suggests he start running. House refuses and Wilson
accuses him of avoiding the truth. House later runs on a treadmill privately but the pain overwhelms him and he’s forced to take some vicodin. In his room, Clancy hallucinates levitating out
of the bed and a bright white light shining through the window. Clancy is actually going through
a seizure, and it’s back to differential diagnosis. House suggests they put the genetic tag directly
into the brain but there’s still no sign of neurological problems.
House, showing signs of stress on his leg, goes off on his own to consider the white board.
Finally he tells them to send Clancy home once his blood pressure is stabilized–he’s stumped
for now. Cameron goes to Cuddy and Cuddy confronts House about how he’s giving up. House
notices something is up and Cuddy is acting guilty and she finally comes clean. At the same time
House realizes what’s up–Clancy has two sets of DNA because he’s ”two people.” Clancy was
created via in vitro fertilization and there’s a second set of DNA in the brain. House suggests they
electrify the hallucination center of the brain and only the second DNA set (which is responsible
for the hallucinations) will activate. Then they can remove the cells and cure him. House needs
more current, despite the chance of brain damage, and then confronts Clancy directly to provoke
a hallucination. That gives them a clear enough trace to find and remove the cells.
Later House confronts Wilson and tells him about how Cuddy lied to him, but he’s figured it’s
Wilson. House simply walks out after Wilson explains, goes home, and goes back to using his
cane.
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Informed Consent
Season 3
Episode Number: 49
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David Foster
Laura Innes
Gregory House)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Stephanie Venditto (Nurse Brenda)
Joel Grey (Dr. Ezra Powell), William Charlton (Mark), Leighton Meester
(Ali)
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House puts a well-known medical researcher through a battery of tests
to determine why he collapsed in his lab. When the team is unable to
diagnose the problem, the doctor asks the team to help him end his
life. House is forced to use his cane again after the ketamine has worn
off as he deals with a clinic patient’s teenaged daughter who has a
crush on him.
Dr. Ezra Powell is working in his laboratory and experimenting on rats with a cancer cure. As
he begins a dissection he has an attack and collapses to the ground.
House comes in with the report on Powell but his team is initially more interested in the fact
House is back on his cane. House proposes putting Powell on a treadmill to run a stress test to
see if his heart or lungs are causing the problem. Cameron administers the test while the others
look on, but Powell quickly gives out. House okays the removal of fluid from Powell’s lungs so he
can take the test.
House is seeing a congested man XXX at the clinic as his daughter SSS looks on. SSS is
attracted with House, much to Cameron’s distaste. House watches with his team as Powell goes
through the stress test without results until House administers a stimulant. They still get no
results and Powell demands that Cameron help him die.
The team distress the ethics of assisted suicide and Powell demands that they stop treating
him. House administers a lung test but Powell still refuses until House bargains for one more day
and agrees to help him die if he can’t come up with anything. Cameron checks out Powell’s lab
and Foreman runs more tests on Powell. the next morning they don’t have anything but House
suspects a problem with his brain and they run a MRI. Wilson checks the tests which turn up
negative for leukemia.
They go in and. . . House lies to Powell. Powell doesn’t buy it and House tries to get more time.
Powell refuses and House prepares to inject him with morphine. After a brief resistance, Foreman
storms out and Cameron follows. Once Powell’s out, it turns out it wasn’t a fatal dose, and House
runs a tube down his chest and continues the tests.
House notices that Cameron scanned low on the MRI and picked up signs of scarring on the
lungs. Chase and Foreman work on him while Cameron withdraws, and Cuddy talks to House
but she’s okay with hi decision to keep Powell alive. Powell has another seizure and House
proposes an open-lung biopsy. House directs Cameron to some magazine article showing Powell
did dangerous experimental procedures on babies, apparently to make her feel less sympathetic
to Powell. Air starts to build up in Powell’s lungs and House does an emergency operation to save
him, then notices Powell has no pain reaction on one side of his body, but they’ll have to wake
him up to test further.
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House is there when Powell wakes up and is none too thrilled, and House runs some impromptu sensory tests. Something is affecting the lungs and the nervous system so House needs
to get a skin sample. He sends Cameron to get it and tells her to do her job. She confronts him
over his experiments but he’s unrepentant and she takes a stand. . . and a skin sample.
Ali, who has been calling House non-stop, stops by to chat with House and he shut her
down. . . for now. House connects from her red thong to using congo red to use as a stain to
detect amyloidosis, and the test comes up positive, but it’s terminal. Powell can do nothing but
die and Cuddy mentions to him the next morning that he passed away at 2:30 after being stable
at 2 a.m. House doesn’t answer her question as to what he knows about it. Later in the chapel,
House tells Cameron that he’s proud of her.
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Lines in the Sand
Season 3
Episode Number: 50
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David Hoselton
Newton Thomas Sigel
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House),
Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
Cuddy)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson), Stephanie Venditto (Nurse Brenda)
Johnny Crear (Thomas Williams), Leighton Meester (Ali), Kat SawyerYoung (Laura Smith), Heather Kafka (Sarah), Geoffrey Blake (Dominic),
Braeden Lemasters (Adam)
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When doctors are unable to diagnose why a severely autistic boy
screams loudly for no apparent reason, House takes the case. As the
boy’s condition worsens, it becomes obvious that House relates to the
boy because he has no social niceties.
Don is working with his autistic son, Adam, but doesn’t have much luck. Adam is more
interested in drawing lines on a chalkboard. Over lunch, Adam starts to choke and scream.
House meets for a differential diagnosis for Adam but he appears distracted and after ordering
some tests, goes to Cuddy to complain that he wants his old blood-stained carpet back. Cuddy
refuses and he won’t go back into the office. While an increasingly bored House works the clinic,
his staff try to strap the screaming Adam into the MRI. Chase and Cameron then go to the house
to run tests.
House eventually finds Ali in the office and starts coming on to him. They’re interrupted when
Cameron reports the tests are negative. House runs a staff meeting in the hallway and tells them
to get a stool sample and Adam has another fit, coughing up fluid from his lungs.
House moves into Wilson’s office for another differential–Wilson is less than thrilled. They
move into the conference room and analyze the new test that shows a heart problem. Cuddy
comes in and tells House that Ali has been calling him 15 times and is going to notify security,
but House isn’t concerned.
Foreman goes to Wilson for advice on the possibility of Adam having lymphatic cancer and
asks him to run a test on Adam. Another screaming fit ensues and House manages to get through
to Adam to get him to take anesthesia by doing it himself. House doesn’t think much of it but
admits he envies Adam since he doesn’t have to worry about social niceties. Wilson runs the tests
but they’re not lymph cells from his armpit, their liver cells. . . under his arm.
Another differential in Wilson’s office and House suspects the liver is damaged and the cells
passed into the bloodstream, even though the liver was normal. House suspects cirrhosis despite
the lack of scarring, and he wonders if the parents gave something to Adam to get rid of him.
Wilson talks to Cuddy and suggests she get the carpet put back in but Cuddy stands firm.
House has moved to Cuddy’s office to get Foreman’s report of calcium carbonate in the stool,
but they’re interrupted when Adam is rushed to cardiac ICU. They stabilize Adam and discuss the
case, but the test for poisoning proves negatives. House suspects Adam may have put something
else in his mouth and orders the staff to get samples from the house.
As House is leaving, he finds Ali waiting for him on his motorcycle. She assures him that she’ll
be legal in 22 weeks and asks why should they wait. Cuddy arrives and sends her off.
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Cameron finds jimson weed in the backyard, which accounts for the symptoms except for the
screaming. They can get the tests back in three days but Adam won’t survive that long. House
goes over Adam’s schedule and doesn’t believe he had any unsupervised time to eat the jimson
weed. House goes to talk to Adam and tries to get through to him by taking away his handheld
game. Adam manages to indicate the sandbox before his right eyeball rolled back into his head.
It’s time for a new meeting in the hospital chapel and Foreman suggests a micro-tumor but
it would require three tumors to account for the symptoms. If they can’t find it on a CT, they’ll
have to remove his eye.
Cuddy tells House that Ali came to her house and came on to her the previous night, but
she’s lying. She does have Ali locked up in her office and House goes to meet with the girl and
talk her out of it. But he sees her milky tears and concludes she breathed in spores that caused
a loss of judgment.
House finally makes a connection and (after interrupting the wrong surgery) finds Adam in his
room, kills the light, and finds worms in his eyes. Adam ate sand in the sandbox with raccoon
excrement, which spread through his system, wouldn’t show up on the parasite tests, and caused
all the symptoms. Laser surgery and medication will take care of them, and House assures the
parents they will have Adam around for a long time.
Wilson suggests to Cuddy that House has a minor form of Asperger’s autism and took the
case to ”help himself,” and he needs the carpet back. Wilson then confronts House and points
out he doesn’t have Asperger’s but House would rather have that kind of freedom. As the family
leaves, Adam gives House his handheld and his parents take it as a positive sign. And House
gets his carpet back.
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Fools for Love
Season 3
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Tuesday October 31, 2006 on FOX
Peter Blake (IV)
David Platt
Gregory House)
David Morse (Michael Tritter)
Sam Ayers (Large Man), Carissa Koutantzis (Waitress), Rod Damer
(Counterman), Scott Allen Rinker (Bobby), Brett Wagner (L.K.), Kimberly Quinn (Nurse Wendy), Ricky Ullman (Jeremy), Jurnee Smollett
(Tracy)
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House takes the case of a young woman who has been rushed to the
hospital with problems breathing and severe stomach pain after she
and her husband were robbed. After her husband collapses, the team
believes the couple’s illnesses are related. Meanwhile, Michael Tritter,
a clinic patient, causes problems for House that could have serious
ramifications.
A young couple are in a diner when two robbers holds them at gunpoint. Jeremy manages to
get the drop on them but his wife, Tracy, starts to choke and collapses.
House’s staff reviews the case and House is skeptical of the fact they’re married at 20. House
is more interested in the fact that Wilson is talking with a new nurse, Wendy and goes out to
confront Wilson, who denies he’s dating the woman. Chase suspects salmonella that covers the
symptoms and House accepts the treatment for now. He then goes into the clinic to meet with
a patient with a staph infection, Michael Tritter, who notes that House isn’t getting away with
his act and kicks his cane out from under him. House relents. . . slightly and gives him an anal
thermometer, then leaves him in the room.
Foreman talks to Tracy and her husband Jeremy, who deny they’re not smoking. She starts
itching from a rash on her arm and House now goes along with Foreman’s diagnosis of an allergic
reaction. House suggests they put her on a treadmill and makes a wager with Foreman on the
results. Tracy’s stomach hurts her and Jeremy starts having similar pain.
While House leads the team on a diagnosis, he goes into the nurses’ locker room to check out
Wendy’s locker and concludes they’re going on a date, and bets Foreman $200 that they are. He
sends Chase and Foreman to check out the couple’s apartment and find that they use condoms,
and Chase suspects they have gonorrhea. Tracy says she had a pregnancy scare and Jeremy
used condoms, then complains it’s a racial thing because they’re a mixed-race couple. The tests
for gonorrhea prove negative and House takes Tracy off the medicine to see if it’s environmental.
He then goes to Cuddy who insists he apologize to Tritter while denying she’s pregnant despite
House’s suspicions. Meanwhile, Tracy wakes up to find Jeremy’s father in her room breaking
Jeremy’s arm. It’s an acute delirium and she goes into a coma.
The team puts Tracy into the MRI while Foreman talks to Jeremy who explains her hallucination and reveals his father was a drunk and killed himself after they eloped to get away from
him. They eliminate the possibility of infection and House suspects it’s environmental, but then
suggests sarcoidosis. He takes the MRI to Wilson for a consultation and reveals he stole Wendy’s
personnel file. Wilson figure House doesn’t want him to be happy, and says it’s not sarcoidosis.
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House orders a biopsy for sarcoidosis anyway and Cameron suggests there’s a conflict with the
husband being the one to allow the treatment. Cameron goes to Cuddy who insists another legal
guardian be appointed, but agrees to have Wilson talk to Jeremy if House will apologize to Tritter.
He agrees but Jeremy would rather have the biopsy instead of her and tells them to stop treating
him. House is angry at Wilson who doesn’t back down, then tells them to cut the morphine on
Jeremy. When his team refuses, House tells them to give him an opiate blocker to put him in pain
so he’ll allow the biopsy on Tracy. When his team still refuse, House gives them the medicine
but after he leaves they realize he’s slipped by them with a second dose. Foreman barges in as
Jeremy goes into pain but insists on getting the biopsy and insists he loves her and will die for
her.
House finally backs down enough to insist on a court order, but when he goes to Cuddy she
ushers him into her office where Tritter is waiting for him. Tritter wants humiliation but House
refuses to apologize. When he emerges he finds out that Jeremy’s insides are rotting and he
doesn’t have sarcoidosis.
The couples’ mutual conditions are worsening and House orders treatment for Tracy and removal of the dead bowel from Jeremy. But an analysis reveals high lactate levels and the intestine
isn’t dead. When Foreman mentions they ran off from his father, House questions the reason they
ran away and realizes it’s a DNA problem, angioedema, that prevents protein formation, and they
both have it because they’re stepchildren. Tracy starts to recover and Foreman wonders how they
should tell them they’re related but House insists he tell them. Foreman eventually tells them
and they’re not happy, even as he tries to assure them their feelings haven’t changed.
Later Chase is comfortable with the situation although Foreman is upset and is heading out of
town. House figures out that it’s Foreman who’s dating Wendy, not Wilson, and has to pay up on
their bet. Foreman meets with Wendy but there are clearly a few issues between them. However,
Foreman notices Jeremy alone and goes to talk to him. Wilson ends up back in her hotel room
by himself, Cuddy’s pregnancy test shows negative, and a speeding House is pulled over by a
policeman. . . Tritter. Tritter notes House was taking a pill while treating and finds reasonable
suspicion to search him and finds his vicodin stash. He arrests him for possession of drugs.
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Que Será Será
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Thomas L. Moran
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
David Morse (Michael Tritter), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Sophie), Kadeem Hardison (Howard), Stephanie
Venditto (Nurse Brenda), Pruitt Taylor Vince (George), Alan Frazier (Vagrant), Michael James Faradie (Paramedic), Ryan Brockington (Rookie), Bruno Amato (Lt. Smith), Richard Chance (Reilly), Denver Dowridge (Garcia), Jim Vickers (Folman), Damien Wayans (Haller),
Cooper Thornton (John)
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The team encounters logistical problems while trying to run tests on
a 600-pound man due to his extremely large size. Meanwhile, House
spends the night in jail after being arrested by Detective Tritter for
various charges, including resisting arrest.
Firemen are cutting a hole in a wall. . . to lower the corpse of a 600-pound man out of his bed
and down to the street. When they try to lift him there’s gas and they realize that the man is still
alive.
Cuddy has the staff do a differential diagnosis on the man, George, while waiting for House to
show up. The initial tests show negative, leaving them puzzled. Meanwhile, House is in jail with
an annoying cell mate. Tritter finally lets him loose and Wilson pays for his bail. House gets in to
the meeting and orders a round of testing. Cameron goes to George’s house to check things out
and notices he has similar furnishings and habits as House. House meets with a clinic patient
while Tritter lurks outside and is unimpressed by House’s gibes. House then orders a MRI for
George and they eventually get his head in. While Cuddy advises House to get a criminal lawyer,
George wakes up from his coma and panics.
Cuddy is mad at House for putting George into the MRI, but Cameron comes to the rescue
saying they couldn’t have denied treatment to George since he qualifies as having a disability,
and claiming she ordered the treatment. The staff are divided on the diagnosis so House goes with
all of them except Chase’s, who basically says to do nothing so House tells him to do sit around
and do nothing. George relates the fact his previous doctors haven’t found anything wrong with
him in the past and he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with him now. He insists on being
released but Cameron and Foreman think otherwise.
House talks to Wilson about Cameron and her newfound lying skills but Wilson would rather
advise House to call the lawyer. Cameron and Foreman report in and House goes to confront
George and points out that no one in their right mind would insist on going home after a coma,
so he must know of some condition he has. House tosses out a variety of symptoms but George
denies having anything and he’s not miserable, just overweight. Before they can continue, House
gets a call from his landlord and returns to his apartment to find Tritter executing a search
warrant. Tritter has found House’s stash of vicodin and wonders if any of them were stolen or
taken under a forged prescription.
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House orders George’s release then wants to know if Wilson told Tritter anything, but Wilson
says he just told Tritter he had prescribed vicodin. Cameron escorts George out as he’s discharged. George still insists there’s nothing wrong him and whatever will happen will happen.
He walks out, but he collapses and falls through a window. As House wonders where Chase is,
Cameron admits she gave him a drug to knock him out because she didn’t think he should leave.
House suspects a parasite from contaminated food and suggests they drill a hole to test. George
agrees but during the procedure he starts to panic when he goes blind.
They don’t find any parasites but House now suspects diabetes. He leaves Cameron to try and
administer the diabetes test, but George insists that he will only help them with the testing if
they check for something that isn’t weight-related.
House meets with a criminal lawyer who suggests he plea bargain. House refuses and goes
back to meet with Cameron and Foreman, and finds out George won’t let them test for diabetes.
House tries to force him to drink the sugar water for the diabetes test but notices yellowing of
the fingernails. House orders x-rays of his hands and says he believes George has lung cancer
as his hands are clubbed. The x-rays confirm that he has a small-cell lung carcinoma that has
metastized in his lymph nodes and it’s inoperable. George takes it in stride.
House ends up plea bargaining and Cameron thinks that will let him keep on doing what he’s
doing. House wonders why she lied and suspects she had someone overweight in her family, but
she denies it.
Tritter talks to Wilson who claims he prescribed all of House’s vicodin, but Tritter notes the
signatures are inconsistent. Wilson wasn’t aware that House was forging his signature but still
claims he wrote them out for House. Tritter accepts his explanation. . . for now.
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Son of Coma Guy
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Doris Egan
Daniel Attias
Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
House)
David Morse (Michael Tritter), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Holly Kaplan (Woman), John Larroquette (Gabe Wasniak), Zeb Newman (Kyle Wasniak), Jonathan Strait (Fake House)
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House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the
man regarding the family history of his son, who may have a genetic
condition and the father is the only living relative. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about the stolen prescription pad as Tritter approaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman in an attempt to divide the
team and reveal their loyalties.
In a coma ward, House is having lunch and watching television when Wilson confronts him
about the fact he faked Wilson’s signature on the prescription pads. They’re interrupted when a
coma patient’s son Kyle comes in to see his father Gabe Wasniak. House notices the son has a
vision problem where he intermittently can’t see things that move. He sets off a seizure in the
kid by flickering the lights.
Chase and Cameron tests Kyle who says his seizures have previously been inconsequential
and other doctors couldn’t find anything. Kyle is also an alcoholic. House suspects it’s something
genetic despite the fact his father Gabe went into coma from asphyxiation after rescuing his wife
from a house fire. The initial tests prove negative and House orders genetic testing, which will
take a while. Kyle’s liver seizes up and they put him on dialysis, and House suggests they talk to
Gabe. He grabs a series of drugs to bring him out of his vegetative state but Cuddy interrupts him
and warns he’ll only be awake for a couple of days at best. House goes ahead with the injection
and Cuddy is furious, but Gabe wakes up almost immediately.
Cuddy checks out Gabe who is fully cognitive, and notes there is no recorded family history
of seizures or liver failure. Gabe is aware his wife is dead and remembers the fire and how he
got Kyle out. He also notes there’s no relevant medical history on his wife’s side and seems
unconcerned about Kyle.
Wilson talks to House about the case and wonders how House has such a cynical view of
fatherhood. Meanwhile Tritter shows up and asks Cameron about House’s drug use and tells her
about how Wilson is defending House. She gets a page which is from Chase and Foreman, who
want to know what Tritter is asking her. Kyle is still slipping away and House goes to see Gabe
who knows he’ll be back in a coma in a couple of days. He wants to get out of the hospital and
get a sandwich and head to Atlantic City. House offers him car and money and they take Wilson
along with them on a road trip. . . in Wilson’s car, with Wilson’s money.
While they travel, House interrogates Gabe about his history. Gabe insists that House answer
one question he asks, for every question House asks. House reluctantly agrees and they trade
off questions as House asks about the factory that Gabe owned, and concludes that Kyle got a
dose of mercury poisoning from spray paint for the boats. House calls in treatment for Kyle and
Foreman is forced to lie to cover for Chase being questioned by Tritter.
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They can’t find the sandwich shop in Atlantic City and Wilson continues to wonder why Gabe
is avoiding Kyle. Gabe first lies and then dodges the questions and insists on going to a casino.
At the hospital, Kyle’s condition worsens despite the treatment. House goes back to the ”game”
and asks Gabe how much awareness he had in his vegetative state. Wilson wants a few answers
himself about House abusing his trust. Foreman calls in to report testing for mercury is negative
and the treatment is failing, and House orders another test.
Wilson tries to track down the sandwich store while House checks over Gabe’s family history.
They notice Gabe has the same problem that Kyle does with being unable to see moving objects.
Tritter questions Foreman who is clearly uncomfortable but Tritter warns that ”everyone lies.”
Gabe asks House while he became a doctor and after some dodging, House admits that when he
was 14 he saw an untouchable, a janitor, in Japan, who they needed to handle a patient with an
infection, and how he doctors kept around because he was right, and that was why they had to
listen to him.
Kyle goes into seizures again while House goes back to the night of the fire, and Wilson accuses Gabe of blaming Kyle because he knocked some tinder loose and caused the fire. Gabe has
an outburst blaming himself and refuses to go back to see him fail his son again. House identifies
Kyle’s accident-prone nature as ragged-red fibre from his mother’s side and the liver failure is
part of his alcoholism. He calls Foreman, who reveals that Kyle can’t get a heart transplant because of his alcoholism and there’s no chance of a cure. Gabe volunteers his own heart although
Wilson warns that ragged-red fibre isn’t curable, only treatable. Cuddy refuses to approve Gabe’s
donation which will require killing him and now there’s only one option. House asks Wilson to
leave then he and Gabe discuss ways that he can kill himself so his heart becomes available.
Gabe doesn’t know what to say to his son, and asks House what he would want to hear from his
father. House admits he’d like to have heard his father to admit he was right just once.
Downstairs at the casino, Wilson pays a guy to pretend to be House where he loudly announces who he and House are. Then they wait outside while Gabe kills himself, and then get
his body to the hospital for the transplant operation. Cuddy suspects something is up but lets
the matter go. Later Kyle wants to know what Gabe left him as a message and House lies and
says that Gabe said Kyle did the right thing.
House talks to Wilson who is trying to take out some money from the ATM. House accuses
him of enabling as Wilson realizes that his bank account has been frozen as part of Tritter’s
police investigation.
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Whac-A-Mole
Season 3
Episode Number: 54
Season Episode: 8
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Pamela Davis
Daniel Sackheim
Gregory House)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist)
Deborah Lacey (Lorraine), Alan Rosenberg (Bruce Steinerman), Mandy
June Turpin (Beth), Dustin Seavey (Rodent), Tanner Blaze (Will Walters), Patrick Birkett (Old Man), Patrick Fugit (Jack Walters), Cassius
Willis (Officer), Cassi Thomson (Kama Walters), Dorothea Harahan
(EMT)
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An 18-year-old teenager is brought to the hospital after having a heart
attack. House reviews the boy’s file and believes he has the diagnosis.
He then turns the case into a game by sealing his opinion in an envelope and challenging Cameron, Foreman, and Chase to guess House’s
diagnosis on their own. Meanwhile, Tritter’s actions against Wilson
continue to strain the oncologist’s relationship with House and destroy
his ability to practice medicine.
At a pizza place teenager Jack Walters is putting up with the stress of handling the kids when
he starts to get dizzy, vomits, and then collapses, clutching at his chest. The boy’s two brothers
come up and tell the EMT that their parents are dead.
Wilson arrives to find his car towed compliments of Tritter. House’s staff goes over the case
but House comes up with a solution. . . and decided to make a game of it, writing his diagnosis
down and sealing it in an envelope. Wilson meets with a lawyer who advises him to stop lying for
House. Jack admits he did drugs to House before their parents died, but now they all are honest
with each other. House doesn’t believe them.
The staff administers tests while House hovers over them making suggestions. Cameron has
no choice but to harass Jack into heart stress to see if he has a spasm. Wilson arrives by bus
and discovers that he’s been suspending from prescribing drugs, but House isn’t too concerned.
House concludes Jack has hepatitis-A and prescribes treatment, but Foreman goes in to see
Jack and sees that he’s starting to bleed from his arm tattoo, his nose, and his ear.
The team runs a new differential as House starts to feel the lack of Vicodin. House sends
Foreman and Cameron on and puts pressure on Chase to write him a prescription. Chase refuses
while Wilson asks Cameron to fill his patients’ prescriptions but she’s reluctant to do so and get
involved with Tritter breathing down Wilson’s neck.
Chase goes to the pizza place to check Jack’s vomit at the source. Wilson meets with one of his
patients while Cameron looks on to get a feel for the prescription necessary. Beth is concerned
about her presence and Wilson doesn’t have an explanation.
Foreman takes samples of Jack’s spinal fluid while his sister Kama offers to help. Foreman
tries to reassure her without much luck. When Foreman rolls him over, one of Jack’s ribs snaps.
He reports to House who is having his shoulder looked at due to pain caused by his cane usage,
and House asks Foreman for Vicodin. He refuses and cane gets a new cane-support. The tests
come back and Jack tests positive for at least two infections, including syphilis and botulism.
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They clear the infections out of Jack’s systems but he starts to have unexplained seizures.
House suspects drugs and wonders if they’re trapped in his fat cells, and are causing weight
loss. They put Jack not a sauna to sweat it out and he confesses that he’s not the person he was
when his parents died, that he’s turned his act around. Jack has another seizure and collapses,
breaking his arm. They get a sample and determine he’s drug-free, but House is more interested
in trading back for someone with a regular cane.
House goes back to Cameron to get a prescription and plays to her sympathy, without any
luck. They run Jack through the MRI and spot a bunch of tumors throughout his brain, tumors
that weren’t there before. It’s back to differential and House suspects that it’s pus caused by
fungus, explaining why the ”tumors” suddenly appeared. House orders a needle insertion and
then takes his last Vicodin and goes to Cuddy for a prescription. She agrees to keep clear of the
police and claims House’s shoulder pain is psychological. House makes a connection and figures
out that Jack’s problems were caused by his parents’ death and the psychological stress. Wilson
comes in asks for Cameron’s assistance with a prescription for a dying patient but House refuses
to let her go. House decides to give Jack more infections to test the specific genetic condition
that was triggered. Whichever symptom triggers will identify the condition. Jack has no choice
but to agree and after House sprays him, they wait for the symptom to trigger. Finally Jack has
a seizure and identifies the disease.
Cuddy thinks that they need to turn the kids over to Social Services but House reveals that a
bone marrow transfer from his brother Will will reboot his immune system. Jack is reluctant to
have Will pressured into helping despite Jack’s reassurances and refuses. House believes Jack
doesn’t want the responsibility and Foreman calls him on it. House decides to prove his point
and tells Jack they have another donor, but he’s still reluctant to agree. House points out that
Jack doesn’t want to be healthy and considers the disease a guilt-free way out of taking care of
his siblings. Jack finally admits it and House is proven right again.
House visits Wilson who is referring his patients to other oncologists and he’s resigning his
practice. He tells House to admit it and when House refuses, he tells him to get out. When House
disputes him, Wilson points out his shoulder pain is a symptom of guilt. Foreman looks on as
Jack says goodbye to his siblings as they’re taken away by Social Services. After they leave, Jack
thanks Foreman for not telling them but still feels guilty for abandoning them.
Later, Wilson waits outside for his bus when House drives up to him. . . and keeps going.
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Finding Judas
Season 3
Episode Number: 55
Season Episode: 9
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Sara Hess
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), David Morse (Michael Tritter)
Jordana Capra (Wealthy Wife), Jodi Long (Judge), Paula Cale (Edie),
Christopher Gartin (Rob Hartman), Alyssa Shafer (Alice)
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House takes the case of a young girl who has been diagnosed with pancreitis. When he takes her divorced parents to court to force them to
allow treatment because they can’t agree, the judge awards guardianship of the girl to Cuddy. Meanwhile, Tritter continues his strategy
to force House to admit to his drug use by offering one of the team
members a deal.
At a fairground, Rob tries to get his daughter Alice on a ride. Alice’s reluctant but eventually
agrees to keep him happy. she starts screaming. . . and doesn’t stop even when the ride does.
At the hospital the father and his divorced wife argue over the patient while Cameron tends
to Alice. Cuddy meets with some donors while House enjoys himself shining a pointer on her
while waiting for her to give him his (limited) dosage of Vicodin. House stops in to check on
the differential on Alice and suspects a disappearing gall stone. While Chase complains about
the fact he was left out of his father’s will, Cuddy meets with Tritter who points out that if his
pressure on Wilson won’t work, he’ll start on the rest of the staff. Cuddy denies that House has
a problem but Tritter thinks she’s failed to deal with him.
Alice’s parents argue over whether she should have surgery or not, and the mother overrides both her husband and House to prohibit the surgery. House takes them to a judge and
wants her to grant them a motion to perform the surgery. The judge goes ahead and afterward
Alice complains about the stitches and painful skin. Foreman checks and finds a rash on her
abdomen.
It’s back to differential but the staff has problems as they deal with the fact Tritter has frozen
their accounts. House is more concerned about his patient and sends them to run tests on Alice.
Wilson comes in to the lounge to gripe to House and Chase reports that the scratch tests are
showing that Alice is allergic. . . to everything. House suspects infection and has her take a bite of
(Wilson’s) sandwich. When she eats it, House determines she’s not allergic to peanuts, disproving
Chase and Foreman’s diagnosis. House orders drugs that may shut down her system and the
father Rob refuses to let him do it but his wife Edie wants House to treat her. It’s back to the
judge who gives temporary guardianship to. . . Dr. Cuddy. She’s not too thrilled.
Tritter talks to Foreman and threatens to put his brother Marcus away, and offers parole for
him in return for Foreman’s testimony. When Foreman doesn’t cave, Tritter suspects he’ll do it
just because of House’s hypocrisy.
Although House suggests broad-spectrum antibiotics, Cuddy orders a narrower range for Alice
and while Edie and Rob argue, Alice’s heartbeat and blood pressure goes up and Cuddy orders
them out. Meanwhile Chase and Foreman start sniping at each other about who made a deal
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with Tritter, when Cameron comes in to tell them Alice has apparently disappeared. Rob brings
her back as she’s collapsed, suffering from muscular rigidity.
It’s back to differential but House is distracted by his growing pain and Cuddy refuses to prescribe for him. House suspects one of the parents gave her aspirin, triggering Reye’s Syndrome,
but both of them deny giving her any. Edie reveals that she left Alice with a baby sitter and House
has Cuddy put her on dialysis, and she gives him a few Vicodin. Cuddy tries to reassure Alice
without much luck, telling her that her parents might get back together.
Tritter works on Cameron and accuses her of being in love with House. He then notes that
Cameron actually turned herself in when she ended up cheating on a test, and he notes that
House has changed her. Cameron walks out on him.
Alice starts to react to the dialysis as her left arm turns pale from lack of blood due to a clot
and they take her into surgery. Tritter meets with Chase and notes that he lied about having his
accounts frozen. He then threatens to make it appear that Chase did rat House out to get him to
rat House out. Chase isn’t thrilled.
In the OR, Alice’s temperature goes up and Cuddy tries to cool her down while House, Chase,
and Cameron wonder if the diagnosis of Reye’s was wrong, but House is still distracted by the
pain. He finally notices that Cuddy has taken her into the shower where Alice’s infection breaks
out again because of Cuddy going with the limited antibiotics, and House snaps at her for her
poor mothering skills.
It’s a new differential, and House suspects it’s something they haven’t touched on yet, but
a broad-spectrum antibiotic won’t work any more. The staff reveals Tritter released their bank
accounts but House isn’t concerned, and doesn’t want to hear Chase try to explain one way or
another.
Wilson meets with an upset Cuddy who believes House deliberately went after her attempt at
motherhood. She admits that her three implantations haven’t worked and she’s awkward with
Alice.
House believes the infection has moved into Alice’s muscle sheath on her left arm and leg
and there’s no other option except amputation from the flesh-eating bacteria. Time is running
out and House snaps at his staff before going with Cuddy to tell the parents. As Alice goes into
surgery, the others discuss the case and Chase realizes that House was wrong. . . she’s allergic
to light and got worse every time she goes into surgery. When Chase tries to get him to stop the
surgery, House slugs him. . . but Chase continues with his theory of why her liver is shutting
down. House realizes he’s right and they stop the surgery just in time. Later Cuddy reassures
the parents but they note that it’s genetic and they’re both carriers.
Later Chase and Wilson talk in the lounge and Chase realizes it didn’t’ matter that he solved
it and House didn’t. Later Tritter meets with. . . Wilson.
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Merry Little Christmas
Season 3
Episode Number: 56
Season Episode: 10
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Liz Friedman
Tony To
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
House), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist)
Cole Evan Weiss (Teenage Boy), Shyann McClure (Little Girl), Teddy
Vincent (Mrs. Zebalusky), Michael Medico (Clinic Doctor), Meredith
Eaton-Gilden (Maddy), Kacie Borrowman (Abigail), David Morse (Detective Michael Tritter)
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Wilson arranges for House to make a deal with Tritter, but House
refuses. Meanwhile, Cuddy cuts House off Vicodin and removes him
from the team’s case: a 15-year-old little person who entered the hospital with a collapsed lung and anemia.
House arrives at the clinic as they decorate for Christmas. . . and finds Tritter and Wilson
waiting for him. Wilson tells House that he confessed he didn’t write the prescriptions and they
worked out a deal: two months in a rehab clinic in return for dropping the charges. House refuses
the deal but Tritter gives him three days.
After Tritter leaves, House goes to Cuddy for pills but she’s meeting with a mother-anddaughter who both have dwarfism, and the daughter Abigail’s lung has collapsed. House is
intrigued by the case and runs a diagnosis, but the mother Maddy is unimpressed by House’s
sarcasm toward her. . . which impresses him. Cuddy confronts Wilson who isn’t thrilled with him
ratting out his friend and notes House won’t take the deal. Wilson thinks House will have no
choice.
House is running a differential diagnosis and believes it’s liver related, when Cuddy takes
House off the case and cuts off his Vicodin. The staff runs a MRI on Abigail while discussing
House’s problems, and confirm that her liver is failing as she vomits blood. Wilson suggests
liver cancer but Cameron thinks she’s too young. Afterward Wilson confronts Cameron over her
hostility and Cameron asks it wasn’t an easy choice. She points out that his motives weren’t
pure, giving him something to consider.
Foreman comes into Cuddy’s office to find House working on her desk. He wants to know
what House saw and gives him a test, but House refuses to get involved. . . until House offers him
one diagnosis for Foreman opening one drawer. Foreman agrees and House notes the problem is
global and it will hit her pancreas next. Unfortunately for House there’s no Vicodin in the drawer.
Chase comes back with Abigail’s home drugs, including treatment for ear infection, and Cuddy
figures out that House gave Foreman the diagnosis, but the pancreas test is negative. House go
to another emergency room and claims to have been in a car accident to get some painkillers. It
doesn’t work.
Foreman and Wilson prepare liver tests but Abigail passes out as her pancreas fails. Cuddy
goes to House but neither one will back down. Cuddy goes to the staff and Cameron believes its
Lupus while Wilson figures it’s cancer. Cuddy orders tests for both but Maddy’s is unimpressed
and wants to hear from House. Cameron goes to House’s apartment where he’s clearly in bad
shape, and has been cutting himself to release endorphin to relieve the pain. Cameron doesn’t
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have any pills and tells him to take the deal, and he wonders if she’s been sick. He wonders if
her ear infection is significant and suggests a treatment for Still’s Disease, but refuses to yield.
Cameron reports to Cuddy who notes that Still’s Disease can’t be readily diagnosed, but
she orders the treatment. House comes in later to confront Wilson and ask for a drug to stop
vomiting. Wilson refuses and leaves, but House spots Abigail’s folder and takes a look. He then
goes in to interrupt Wilson with Mrs. Zebalusky, the wife of a dead patient to assert his diagnosis
was correct. The widow asks him to leave but as he does, Wilson figures out he snagged some
painkillers from the dead man’s bedside.
Abigail starts to recover and Cuddy notes that neither Wilson or she could have figured it.
Later, Wilson meets with Tritter but refuses to testify. Tritter says they’ll subpoena him and he’ll
go to jail with House. While House gets some drugs by claiming to be getting them for Zebalusky,
Abigail starts bleeding.
It’s back to differential and Wilson suggests leukemia, but Cameron is skeptical and still
insists it’s auto-immune. Cuddy asks for a half hour. Down in the cafeteria, a much better House
is chatting with a little girl and her stuffed dog when Cuddy offers him Vicodin but quickly figures
out he got drugs. House figures out that Abigail doesn’t suffer from skeletal dwarfism but rather
a pituitary problem. And that means House figures she’s suffering from both cancer and autoimmune. Gulping down pills, House explains to Maddy and Abigail that Abigail isn’t a dwarf and
her condition can be treated. Abigail is reluctant to have her height problem treated because
right now she’s unique. House leaves and Maddy confronts him over it. House points out they’re
both freaks and Abigail should have a chance at not being a freak. Maddy goes in to tell her
daughter to take the treatment and be ”normal” no matter what.
Later Wilson visits House in his office and reveals Abigail decided to get the treatment. It’s
Christmas Eve and the deal runs out the next day. Wilson offers his friend company but House
isn’t interested. Back at his apartment, House considers the pills and then calls his mom and
leaves a message saying ”Merry Christmas.” He then takes some pills with alcohol. Later Wilson
arrives and comes in to find House on the floor vomiting from a combination of the alcohol and
the new painkillers.
Later House goes to visit Tritter and takes the deal. Tritter refuses, saying he has new evidence
and doesn’t need Wilson’s testimony. He got hold of the pharmacy logs for Zebalusky and has
what he needs. He leaves, wishing House a Merry Christmas.
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Words and Deeds
Season 3
Episode Number: 57
Season Episode: 11
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Leonard Dick
Daniel Sackheim
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House),
Cuddy)
Jason George (Brock Hoyt), Hira Ambrosino (Anethesiologist), Aulani
Rhea (Nurse), Terryn Westbrook (Sarah), Tory Kittles (Derek Hoyt),
Martin Mullen (Ennis), Brian Leckner (Ivan), David Morse (Michael
Tritter), Meagan Good (Amy), Vyto Ruginis ( Assistant District Attorney
Velez), Helen Carey (Judge Helen Davis), Kadeem Hardison (Howard),
Donald Sage MacKay (Neil)
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House splits his time between treating a firefighter for uncontrollable
shivering, giving Tritter a piece of his mind, and handling his trial for
forging prescriptions.
At a fire, two firefighters come out and the head of the squad chews them out for taking risks.
One of them, his brother Derrick, starts to get dizzy and tries to go back in. His co-worker Amy
stops him and he collapses to the ground, shivering.
Derrick is brought to the clinic where Cameron checks him out where he is covered with skin
grafts from previous burns. Cameron suggests that House see the patient but notes that House
is busy. . . without mentioning he’s at the preliminary hearing for his drug case. House pleads
not guilty although his lawyer notes that Tritter has an airtight case, and advises House not to
confront Tritter.
At the hospital Foreman and Chase are more concerned about House’s legal problems then
the case and House himself is distracted. Only Cameron is focusing on the case. Afterward Cuddy
confronts House and points out that he’s at fault for his current situation and he’d better talk
nicely to Tritter, then gives him some Vicodin.
After hearing that Derrick is seeing blue, House suspects male menopause and proscribes
hormones. As they administer treatment, Derrick has an apparent allergic reaction and demands
they remove the needles. He starts to choke Cameron until they give him a sedative.
House goes to meet with Tritter and. . . apologizes. Tritter thanks him. . . but doesn’t believe
what he’s saying. He notes he only believes what House does, and says he’ll se him at the trial.
Back at the office, House hears the new case information but doesn’t offer any new theory.
After they’re done, he leaves and says he’ll be checking himself in rehab. Wilson and Cuddy confront him later at the rehab center and House notes he’s doing it for Tritter and the judge. . . and
for real. House’s staff goes over Derrick’s case without him but Cameron insists they talk to
House.
House is in a group session and somewhat hostile, but concedes he can’t do it on his own.
The staff Derrick isn’t telling them the pain he’s feeling but then he has a heart attack and they
take steps to revive him. It turns out Derrick has had two previous heart attacks and didn’t
tell anyone. There’s no indication why he should have a heart attack, so Cameron goes to see
House. . . who is vomiting. They try to figure out a common cause between the attacks, but Amy
is the only one. They bring Amy in to see him and he has another heart attack.
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Cameron starts to run tests to determine what Amy has that might trigger Derrick’s attacks,
and she talks about how Derrick saved her and got burned, getting the skin grafts. Wilson goes
to see House at the rehab clinic and isn’t sympathetic to House’s complaints. Cameron confronts
Derrick about the fact he loves Amy and he admits it, but notes she’s engaged to his brother. The
staff go back to tell House and suggest the stress of the thwarted relationship, along with the
menopause, is causing the heart attacks. House determines they need Cuddy to get her approval
to fry Derrick’s brain, erasing his memories of Amy. Cuddy approves the treatment but after
the others leave, House questions if Cuddy feels sorry for him and approved the treatment as a
result. She notes that the rehab is working.
Cameron explains the situation to Derrick, noting it will wipe out his memories of much of his
life. He still refuses to tell Amy.
Tritter goes to see House at Cuddy’s insistence but doesn’t’ plan on dropping the case. House
calls him on it, noting Tritter is just as stubborn but Tritter figures with House, even his actions
lie.
The staff administers the electroshock therapy and then test him afterward. Derrick has no
memory of his life and doesn’t recognize Brock or Amy. They update House and then leave as
Wilson arrives with a gift: a tie for his court hearing. House apologizes to Wilson as part of the
program, shocking him.
Amy keeps an eye on Derrick but when Cameron mentions her engagement, she says she’s
not involved with him.
House is at his trail when he gets a call from Cameron to tell him the heart attacks have
nothing to do with his memories. He refuses to hang up on the judge’s orders but tells them
to set up a test while he goes back to the clinic. He realizes that Derrick’s high-pitched voice is
another symptom and has them check his arteries. They find that the spine is pressing on an
artery, obstructing blood flow to the brain and causing fake memories.
House returns to the trial where Cuddy is testifying to House stealing the painkillers from the
dead patient. She then testifies that House didn’t get the right pills. Wilson had told her House
tried to steal the pills earlier and she swapped the pills for a placebo, and has the evidence to
support it. She admits she didn’t expect it to go this far. The judge has no choice but to dismiss
the case and berates both House and Tritter. She still holds him for a night in jail for contempt.
As House leaves, Tritter confronts him and. . . wishes him luck.
Cameron tries to reassure Derrick, saying he’ll have to start over. Wilson and Cuddy visit
House in jail and Cuddy admits she perjured herself. She notes that when he is out of rehab,
she’ll own his ass and doing everything she wants him to. After she leaves, Wilson gives him his
prescription from the rehab center. . . and House reveals that he’s bribed his keeper to get him
Vicodin. Wilson wonders why House apologized then. . . and House tells him to believe what he
wants.
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One Day, One Room
Season 3
Episode Number: 58
Season Episode: 12
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David Shore
Juan J. Campanella
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy)
Sean Christopher Davis (Father), Todd Sandler (Ear Patient), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Roger Ainslie (Nose Patient) , George Williams
(Doctor), Michelle Gardner (Dr. Stone), Randy Evans (Patient #1), Ray
Chavez (Sick Patient), Michael Rivkin (Patient #4), Nick Slatkin (Hiccuping Patient), Jason Gallloway (Patient #5), Joel David Moore (College Student), Hope Shapiro (Patient #6), Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist),
Bryna Weiss (Patient #3), Kristen Glass (Beautiful Woman), Geoffrey
Lewis (Older Man), Katheryn Winnick (Eve), Drew Matthews (Kid)
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While House is forced to work full-time in the clinic and deal with a
rape victim who insists on confiding with him, Cameron deals with
with a terminal cancer patient trying to take advantage of her state of
mind.
House enters Cuddy’s office and she tells him he’ll be doing clinic work. House isn’t thrilled
but has no choice and has to listen to the patients’ various sexually-related problems. He tries to
get out of it when a man comes running in screaming in pain and clutching at his head. House
finally trips him and gives him a sedative. House takes advantage of the man to get Cuddy to let
him run a diagnosis and get out of clinic duty.
House quickly runs his staff through an extended diagnosis, only to reveal the man has a bug
in his ear. He then takes off for the park to escape Cuddy and clinic duty. Meanwhile, Cameron
takes on a homeless man who has cancer. She then tells Cuddy that House doesn’t have a case,
and Cuddy goes to the park to confront him. He reveals he’s on Vicodin and out of rehab, and
forces him back to the clinic.
House is stuck with more patients and then starts paying them to leave. Cuddy isn’t thrilled
and finds a way to make it interesting: she’ll pay him $10 for each patient he can diagnose
without touching. He agrees and goes on a rampage of treatment then he’s back to the original
batch of patients with STDs. He ends up with a rape victim, Eve, who lashes out at him. He
concludes she was raped and goes to Cuddy, suggesting he might not be the right doctor for her.
Cuddy assigns another doctor, Stone, but Eve insists that House treat her. House talks to her
and Eve says she doesn’t know why and House suggests she is trying to get control over him,
and she tells him to get out. Cameron orders more treatment with the homeless man to make
him comfortable and he insists she stop the treatment. House treats another patient and notes
Stone talking to Eve. He’s interrupted when one of his patients that he paid $50 comes back, but
then Eve grabs sedatives and overdoses herself.
When Eve wakes up, House talks to her briefly. His staff differs on how House should handle
her and he decides to get her talk to him about the rape. Meanwhile Cameron tries to deal with
the homeless man who claims he promised his father that he would die alone and miserable.
The homeless man then knows or guesses that Cameron’s husband died, and says he just needs
someone to remember him.
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House goes over the situation with Eve and she suggests he wants to talk about something
that matters. House goes to talk to Wilson and admits he doesn’t know how to answer her
questions. Wilson suggests she wants to share with her but House doesn’t want to share his life
experiences. Cameron suggests he lies and Eve wants hope. Foreman suggests House say his life
sucks. Chase suggests House keep her asleep.
House finally talks to Eve about his grandmother that made him miserable when he stayed
with her while his parents traveled. She thinks he’s lying and she gets angry. Cuddy interrupts
to reveal that she ran a test and Eve is pregnant.
He talks to Eve who plans on keeping the baby. House suggests she get an abortion and tries
to discuss the philosophy, until he admits he’s more comfortable discussing theory then personal
matters. Meanwhile, the homeless man demands that Cameron remember him and insists he die
in pain to ensure it. Cameron agrees not to give him treatment.
House takes Eve to the park where she is upset over the challenge to her religious convictions. She admits she needs the comfort of knowing her life means something and wonders what
House’s excuse is for not feeling comforted.
Cameron’s patient passes away in his bed as she looks on. And Eve finally breaks down and
tells House what happened, and he says he’d like to hear what happened.
Later Cameron tends to her patient’s body while House and Wilson play foosball. House informs Cuddy that Eve got the abortion and she tells him he helped. House doesn’t think he
accomplished anything positive, and he doesn’t know why he helped her. Wilson asks if he’s
going to follow up with her, and he notes he can only handle one room in one day.
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Needle in a Haystack
Season 3
Episode Number: 59
Season Episode: 13
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David Foster
Peter O’Fallon
Gregory House)
Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson)
Jake Richardson (Stevie Lipa), Maxine Hayden (Patron #2), Joni Barth
(Patron #1), Tyrace Richardson (Jack), Antonio D. Charity (Police Officer), Tasha Taylor (Kate), Hira Ambrosino (Anesthesiologist), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Sandra Purpuro (Marina), David Kelsey (Ron),
Rob Brownstein (Franklin), Jessy Schram (Leah), Wendy Makkena (Dr.
Julie Whitner), Arabella Field (Judy)
HOU-312
House and his staff must deal with a teenage Gypsy boy suffering from
inexplicable respiratory distress. However, House has bigger issues on
his mind: Cuddy has given away his handicapped spot.
A boy and girl are making out in a car when there’s a knock on the car as a policeman shows
up and tells them to move on in a bit. After he leaves, they go at it again but the boy, Stevie, has
respiratory distress and the girl Leah first calls for help then drives him to the clinic.
House arrives at the clinic and finds that his handicap spot has been assigned to someone
else and he’s been reassigned further. Foreman gives him Stevie’s case and House runs an initial
diagnostic, but is more interested in confronting Dr. Whitner, who has his handicapped spot.
She isn’t willing to give up her spot. Meanwhile Foreman checks out Stevie who refuses to give
them a way to contact his parents and has an attack. Foreman treats him and it becomes clear
Stevie has some scientific and medical knowledge. They notice that despite the fact he has a
blood effusion, there are no signs of blood in the lungs.
Chase and Cameron go to Stevie’s house and find it exceedingly dirty. Chase finds a couple
having sex in the bedroom, but it turns out the couple are having an affair and Stevie gave them
the wrong address. Stevie admits that he’s Romany–gypsy–and they don’t share information with
outsiders. He admits he smoked pot but he refuses to give them his address as they would
”contaminate” it if they go in. Cameron suggests the pot might have a pesticide that caused the
bleeding, but Leah gave it to him.
When House gets no luck with Cuddy getting his handicap slot back, they make a bet that
if he can stay in a wheelchair for a week she’ll give him his slot back. The staff meet for a new
differential diagnosis. House insists there’s some kind of leak and they need to speed it up by
thinning his blood. As Cameron starts to inject the dye, Stevie goes into convulsions as the dye
is stuck in his liver as if fails.
It’s back to differential diagnosis and a new round of tests, and House visits with a child
patient whose mother thinks he’s faking to get out of school. House prepares to give the boy Jack
a painful injection and the mother backs down.
They give Stevie a MRI while Foreman suggests he go back to school rather than follow the
family trade. They find a granuloma as Stevie’s parents show up and demand an explanation.
Meanwhile House is working to get back into his car when Foreman says it’s Wagners and wants
a biopsy, but House warns the liver will be gone before they can complete it, and recommends
medical treatment.
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The next day Stevie’s parents provide him with food, clothing, and special treatment much to
Foreman’s distaste. The parents arrive and insists on providing ”balance,” while not happy with
Leah the outsider who has left. Wilson argues with House about his stubbornness in staying in
the wheelchair. Leah returns and Stevie’s parents insist on her leaving, but Stevie starts bleeding
from the bladder.
Tests reveal Stevie’s liver is improving but now his bladder is bleeding out and the treatment for Wagner’s is making him worse. House believes the treatment is wrong and they need a
more precise treatment, immune modulation. It’s not FAA approved and House says to claim it’s
something that it’s treatable for. Stevie’s parents refuse to allow him to receive an experimental
drug. House suggests Foreman work on his salesmanship technique while House faces off with
Whitner who thinks he’ll back down.
Foreman returns to Stevie’s room to find his relatives present and reluctant to leave. Foreman
manages to get them out and then tries to get Stevie to agree to the experimental treatment as
they’re out of options. Foreman gets him to believe him by saying if his parents find out he’ll lose
his license, but before Steve can take the pills his spleen ruptures. Foreman checks for Wagner’s
but can’t find the granulomas confirming Wagner’s. House wants them to check his bowel but
when the surgeon ignores him, he’s forced to wheel his way into the operating theater. When the
surgeon still ignores him, House gets up out of the chair and checks out the bowel looking for
granulomas. As Stevie’s blood pressure drops, House is forced to have Foreman take over and he
finally realizes he doesn’t have Wagner’s, and the parents were right.
The parents won’t let the staff near Stevie so House draws the paths of the symptoms and
suggests they check the colon. Since he’s in the ICU and the parents have limited visiting privileges, Foreman suggests they sneak in there when they’re not looking. While waiting to go in,
House admits to Wilson he hasn’t got a legal leg to stand on. . . but is going to get the spot anyway. House then insults the parents to get their attention while the staff check Stevie’s colon and
spot a toothpick. Stevie accidentally swallowed a toothpick and it penetrated his intestinal wall
while he and Leah were making out and since it was the same density as the tissue they didn’t
spot it on the previous tests.
Foreman shows the toothpick to Stevie and suggest he can get him onto the staff as a lab
technician, but Stevie admits he doesn’t want to give up on his family, and that the staff doesn’t
have any family. Later House confronts Cuddy who notes he got out of his wheelchair and he
lost. House points out Whitner knew she was going to win and Cuddy was never going to give
him the space. House guilts her with the fact she was never going to honor her agreement, and
then plans to take advantage of it to get his spot.
Later Stevie leaves with his family as Foreman looks on, then spends the night alone. And
House limps out and sees that Cuddy has given him back his parking spot.
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Insensitive
Season 3
Episode Number: 60
Season Episode: 14
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Matthew V. Lewis
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Cindy Lu (Nurse #1), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Aulani Rhea (Nurse
#2), Ingrid Sanai Buron (Nurse Bev), Jenny Robertson (Abby), Mika
Boorem (Hannah Morgenthal), Josh Stamberg (Don Herrick), Kimberly
Quinn (Nurse Wendy), Ruth Silveira (Female Surgeon)
HOU-314
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Cuddy has a blind date. Meanwhile, House
leaves ER duty to take the case of a child patient named Hannah.
A mother and daughter are driving home from the skating rink and the mother is concerned
that she fell, and that her friends weren’t careful enough The girl, Hannah, is upset, and the
mother is going to have the doctors check her and warn Hannah’s friends off. They’re hit by a
truck and Hannah tries to get free to get her unconscious mother out. Hannah calls 911 and
says she’s fine. . . unaware that there is a piece of metal in her leg.
House comes in to find Foreman and spars with his current girlfriend, then sees him tending
to Hannah. House quickly determines she is insensate to pain and orders tests suspecting something is wrong, then goes to talk to Cuddy. He quickly realizes that Cuddy has a blind date and
teases her a bit. Hannah refuses to let them test and House goes to see her while poking away at
Foreman about his relationship. House then confronts Hannah and they compare symptoms until House can trick her into letting him give her a sedative so they can run tests. Later Cameron
checks Hannah’s temperature and the girl passes out, overheating. They apply ice packs as she
goes into shock.
House suggests a biopsy of the spinal nerve, risking Hannah’s possible paralysis, but Foreman
thinks it’s just a fever. When his staff stands against it, House goes to Cuddy. Hannah’s mother
is in bad shape and so far they’re keeping it from Hannah. To avoid testing her, Chase suggests
they inflict more pain on Hannah to find a tender spot.
Cuddy meets with her blind date, Bobby, and they get along until House shows up to ask for
the nerve biopsy. While House interrogates her date, Cuddy challenges the need for the tests and
she quickly gives in.
Chase runs the pain tests on Hannah while she asks about her mother. Hannah inadvertently
gets second degree burns and Chase tries to comfort her. Foreman then prepares to drill into her
skull to inflict more pain. Foreman and Hannah chat about her mother and how she tries to get
her mad, then Hannah starts to react. She runs off in panic.
Wilson confronts House about Hannah and how House is examining her out of curiosity.
They’re interrupted when Foreman comes in to warn she’s prepared to jump off the second-floor
balcony. They try to comfort her in her paranoia and then her legs go numb and she falls to the
floor below.
They put the now-paralyzed Hannah back into bed and run more tests, but she’s more concerned about her mother. They can’t account for the paralysis but along with the paranoia indicates a neural condition. Cameron suspects the thyroid and House goes to check with a specialist. . . and goes to see Cuddy at her house, claiming he can’t find anyone else. Her date is there
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with her and House eventually figures it out, and she points out he’s suddenly interested in her
and suspects he’s jealous. House denies it and Cuddy leaves him at the door after telling her it
isn’t the thryroid. But Herrick overhears them talking and tells her that she’s more interested in
House than anything else, and he’d rather date that woman.
House goes back to run the nerve biopsy and he ends up going to Wilson, who points out that
House is using Hannah’s condition to find a cure for himself. He calls House on it, pointing out
that House is biased and House stalks out and orders the biopsy the safest way they can.
Cameron and Foreman discuss their respective relationships, and the fact she married a
dying man to avoid commitment. Cameron finds something interesting: Hannah’s nerves are
degenerating from something systemic that’s affecting the nerves. Cameron interrupts to leave
as Hannah’s mother is out of surgery, and she’s more concerned about reassuring Hannah then
diagnosing her, to House’s displeasure. Hannah’s mother wakes up and is apologetic over causing
the accident and hurting Hannah. Hannah’s mother passes out and as she goes into surgery,
Hannah starts feeling first her own tears and then a headache.
It’s back to differential diagnostic and they conclude emotional pain caused the reaction and
they were arguing about whose fault it was. House factors in guilt and suggests they give her a
shot of B-12. . . but ER already did. House goes to see Wilson after ordering bone marrow tests for
leukemia. House realizes she has B-12 deficiency and something else ate the injection. Hannah
has another paranoid episode and takes her to the OR, interrupting the current surgery. They
cut her stomach open without anesthesia and House removes. . . a 25’ tapeworm.
Later Hannah’s mother is brought in to see Hannah while Abby confronts Foreman who
breaks up with her. She points out he’s trying to maintain his personal space and his angry
at him. . . and House. Cuddy is sleeping alone, while Wilson suggests that House ask Hannah for
the nerve sample for his possible cure. House declines and they head out for breakfast. Chase
and Cameron head out and she suggest they have sex, as Chase is the one she’s least likely to
fall in love with. Chase considers whether he should be offended. . . and then agrees.
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Half-Wit
Season 3
Episode Number: 61
Season Episode: 15
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Lawrence Kaplow
Katie Jacobs
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Gregory House)
Scott Weintraub (Stage Manager), Tyler Patton (Neurosurgeon), Dave
Matthews (Patrick), Dru Mouser (Arlene), Kurtwood Smith (Dr. Obyedkov)
HOU-315
House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House’s own
health.
At a concert hall, a performer prepares to play a piano concert with the aid of his father. They
go out on stage and the father introduces Patrick and explains he was in an accident and now
they are raising money for people with similar neurological disabilities. Patrick begins to perform
but then starts missing notes. Patrick then complains of head pains, and his hands are horribly
twisted.
Cameron arrives in the staff room to find a bag waiting for her. They’ve all been called in on
House’s order to check out Patrick. While Foreman runs initial tests on Patrick, House deals
with a clinic patient with bad breath, diagnosing her with bulimia while treating the blister on
her foot. Meanwhile he takes a blood sample from himself. Foreman notices the blood sample,
when House hands it in for basic tests to be done.
When Foreman’s tests of Patrick prove negative, House brings a piano to Patrick’s room. After
Patrick performs perfectly and beautifully, House orders a MRI to ”see the music” and has Patrick
pretend to play. They then detect specific brain activity and indications of a heart condition, and
House orders surgery. Meanwhile Cameron has checked House’s mail and sees he has plane
tickets for Boston. They speculate that House might be considering a job at a hospital there,
which might explain that he seems to be running a health checkup on himself.
Cameron and Chase go to House’s apartment to look for clues while Foreman inserts a probe
into Patrick’s heart. He has a seizure and they have to revive him. Meanwhile, Cuddy calls Boston
but they say he’s not offered a job and she figures he’s there as a patient. She goes to talk it over
with Wilson when she realizes that House is seeing an oncologist specializing in brain cancer.
She wonders why House isn’t displaying symptoms but Wilson warns that it depends on how far
along the cancer is.
They prepare to sedate Patrick for treatment but he panics and then has another seizure.
Cameron confronts Wilson who then goes to see House to tell him he knows about the brain
cancer. House dismisses his concerns, and Chase comes in, saying they found internal bleeding
in Patrick’s brain that accounts for his symptoms, but no reason for the bleeding.
It quickly becomes clear to House the rest of the staff know House has cancer, much to
House’s annoyance. House is more concerned about Patrick and wants to know why Patrick’s
brain is getting worse. House has Patrick taken off the anti-seizure treatment so they can do a
pep scan as he has more violent seizures.
Cameron comes to House with a recommendation letter for her that she’s typed up for him
to sign, as she’s applying for another job. She has no reason to stay if House is not around, she
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says, and House tells her he’s not dead yet. House then wishes her well and she moves forward
and they kiss... and then she tries to take a blood sample from him. House catches her arm with
the syringe before she succeeds, then tells her he already has a blood sample and scans on file.
The staff quickly determine that House has inoperable brain cancer with only a year left to live.
Patrick has another seizure while the staff figure out House is applying for an experimental
treatment, something that will not cure cancer, but treat depression in a cancer patient. House
still works on Patrick’s case and notices that one side of his brain is working more than the
other and he wants more tests. When his staff prefer to work on House’s case, House goes to
talk to Patrick. He asks if Patrick likes his life, but he’s unable to answer such a question. House
sees small patterns of blood in Patrick’s brain and wants to biopsy everywhere to find the cause.
That’s not possible of course, so Foreman suggests they do an EEG from inside Patrick’s brain
so they can figure out where to do a brain biopsy. Foreman wants to talk to House personally
but his boss shuts him up.
Once Foreman has run the test, he goes back to House and holds the results hostage to force
him to hear what he has to say. Foreman admits he likes House although House doesn’t believe
it. Foreman then tells House that one side of Patrick’s brain is brain-dead.
House considers the case and wonders if there is still some brain activity in the dead section.
Since Patrick can still play, they determine it’s auto-immune and House lets Foreman run tests
while Chase decides to give his boss an awkward hug. He then reveals Patrick is starting to
respond but House has something else in mind. House then goes to see Cuddy at her home and
suggests that they remove half of Patrick’s brain to restore full function to the other half. He
explains that the part of Patrick’s brain that is mostly dead causes the seizures and prevents the
other half of his brain to develop and function properly. She says to check with Patrick’s father
and they then hug, while House grabs her ass, making Cuddy smile.
House then explains the procedure to Patrick’s father, saying he might get a healthy son who
can take care of himself. But he will also lose his ability to play the piano like he does now. He
talks to his son and asks if he’s happy. When Patrick can barely respond, his father agrees to
the surgery.
Meanwhile the staff has discovered that it wasn’t cancer at all, but neurosyphilis, and House
reveal that it wasn’t his file at all, but someone else’s. He did think the patient had cancer, and
he wanted the hospital in Boston to think he had brain cancer, to they could insert a device to
stimulate his pleasure center in his brain. His staff is disappointed that he’d fake such a thing,
but they fail to think about how bad House must be feeling since he was willing to take such
drastic measures.
Later Wilson confronts House while noting Patrick’s surgery went well. Wilson comments on
the irony of how people with cancer push people away, and House faked his cancer to do the
same thing. He suggests that House ease up a little and go out with a friend.
House checks up on Patrick who won’t be talking for a while until his other brain half has
learned to control his speech center, but he can now button his shirt, and is happy. Later House
leaves and notices the others at a bar getting together and having a good time. He contemplates
this, then takes a step forward and grabs the door handle.
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Top Secret
Season 3
Episode Number: 62
Season Episode: 16
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Thomas L. Moran
Deran Sarafian
Gregory House)
Marco Morales (Cpl. Foley), Keisha Alfred (Technician), Hira Ambrosino (Anesthesiologist), Annie Quinn (Gina), Marc Blucas (John
Kelley)
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The ex-Marine that saved House’s life, in a dream he had the day
before, is admitted in the hospital with symptoms resembling Gulf War
Syndrome. While House is busy dealing with his own health issues,
and Chase and Cameron are too busy with each other, the ex- Marine
gets worse.
A group of soldiers drive across the landscape in a war zone, when suddenly there’s a burst
of fire and the jeep goes over. One Marine hauls another wounded man away. . . and it’s House,
who is dreaming the entire thing happening to him. Cuddy comes in with a case for him, of a
veteran with Gulf War syndrome, who is the nephew of a hospital benefactor. House checks the
file. . . and recognizes the patient as the man who was hauling him away in his dream.
House tells his dream to Wilson but doesn’t believe he had some kind of miraculous dream,
but seems to have trouble urinating. The staff are divided on the diagnosis of Gulf War Syndrome
and run a diagnosis on him, while House wonders if he might have seen the Marine, John Kelley,
on TV. Kelley complains of fatigue and aching of the joints and the staff is still divided, while
House wonders again where he might have seen him. House starts to feel some new pains and
leaves the staff to test Kelley, and Cameron and Chase spar about who will stay to run the tests.
Cameron suggests they have sex on a nearby bed. After some reluctance on Chase’s part, they
end up together.
House is at home and still having trouble urinating and sleeping, and feeling more pain.
Foreman comes in to find Chase and Cameron gone and Kelley complaining of a phantom odor.
Kelley’s mouth is covered with bacterial vaginoisis which is causing the taste/smell.
House is soaking in the bed when the staff calls him with the new confirmed symptom. House
suspects parotid cancer and tells them to track down Kelley’s former girlfriend for the possibility
of a STD. Wilson tends to Kelley who admits he avoided chewing tobacco because of his concern
out of cancer. The staff wonders why House is wasting their time, or if he’s wasting their time, but
Foreman is more interested in where Cameron and Chase were. Chase lies (badly) until Cameron
admits they were having sex. Foreman thinks she’s joking and doesn’t believe her.
House visits Wilson who says the tests are inconclusive. House then asks for a prescription
but Wilson isn’t willing even though House hasn’t urinated in three days. Wilson doesn’t believe
him but fills the prescription. The staff confirms Kelley hasn’t had a date in a year and leaves, and
after Foreman leaves Chase is ticked off that Cameron convinced Foreman they weren’t together.
Chase thinks they’re out of control and suspects Cameron wants to get caught and make House
jealous.
House is meeting with a clinic patient, Gina, who is bragging about her sex life and admits
she has OCD and drinks a lot of water in front of House. House diagnoses her as having diabetes
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insipidus caused by a damaged pituitary. Wilson is testing Kelley with a dye but the Marine goes
deaf in the middle of the test. Wilson tells House that Kelley has cancer of the brain, with at least
six tumors. After deafness comes blindness. . . and death.
The tumors didn’t turn up in the VA report, so House wonders if the x-rays got switched.
Cameron and Chase report that everything Kelley has told them is true about his background,
to confirm why he dreamed about Kelley, and Wilson takes over. Cuddy has the VA re-check
the files but House still suspects something is wrong despite the fact a metal pin confirms the
x-ray is Kelley’s. House now suspects radiation exposure and orders a new round of tests but
Cameron wants him to admit the dream is something House can’t explain. House snaps at her
before barging out, and Chase wonders if Cameron is really over House. Foreman and Wilson are
preparing for surgery on Kelley when the scan shows no signs of the cancer. House suspects they
were wrong diagnosing what they saw but they’re interrupted when Kelley’s legs are paralyzed
and House asks him one question: has he ever appeared in any porno.
It’s back to the white board but Chase comes in to reveal he’s detected depleted uranium in
Kelley’s blood. But House doesn’t believe it’s relevant any more and then heads home to get some
sleep. Foreman suggests they treat Kelley for radiation toxicity.
House goes home and puts in a catheter to drain his kidneys and gain some much needed
relief, then goes to bed. The staff prepares to administer the treatment but the paralysis is
spreading upward. House can’t get to sleep and goes in the next morning for a new differential
diagnosis. They mention they started to administer the radiation treatment and House is irritated
since it’s introduced a new variable and didn’t accomplish anything. Cuddy calls them in to reveal
that Kelley is unconscious and House believes there’s blood loss and orders a transfusion. Chase
trips over a puddle of urine coming out of House’s catheter bag, which is leaking. House starts
bleeding from the nose. . . then realizes he’s having a dream and wakes up.
House comes back in for the morning and now knows the answer: Kelley has cauterization
scars in his nose from a childhood disease that destroys the capillaries and merges the arteries
and veins together, which prevent his blood from being filtered, causing the infections. Surgery
will clear up the condition and House can now urinate. He boasts to Wilson that now he’s fine
but Wilson wonders why he was having trouble in the first place, trouble caused by Vicodin.
House doesn’t buy it for a minute.
House confronts Cuddy about the fact that she lied and she dated Kelley two years ago,
which is how House recognized him. Cuddy suspects that House remembered Kelley because the
Marine made out with her and tells House to get over her. House denies it.
Later Cameron and Chase are making out when House barges in to interrupt them, then
leaves smiling.
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Fetal Position
Season 3
Episode Number: 63
Season Episode: 17
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Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
Matt Shakman
Jeff Sugarman (Fetal Surgeon), Tyson Ritter (Himself), Anne Elizabeth
Ramsay (Emma)
HOU-317
A famous celebrity photographer suffers from a stroke while being
pregnant at her early forties. House and his team have to deal with
a great dilemma, save the mother or her unborn child.
Pregnant photographer Emma arrives at a photo shoot for rock star Tyson Ritter, but she can’t
read the writing on a prop chalk board. She’s starts slurring her speech and says she’s having a
stroke before passing out.
House comes in to visit Emma, who is checked in at the hospital. He runs some tests and
determines her kidneys have shut down, and resolves to find the underlying cause of the stroke.
Emma is interested in taking photos of House, and the staff is interested in House’s photo.
House has the staff run tests to determine if she has a clot in her heart, while he discusses
his vacation plans, and Cameron wonders why House didn’t say anything about seeing her and
Chase together. They confirm House’s diagnoses and prepare to put in a balloon to clear the clot.
The staff clears the clot but Emma’s kidneys are still shut down and the staff runs various
diagnoses. They come up with five possible conditions but they all test negative. House confronts
Emma and warns that there’s something wrong with the fetus.
It’s back to the white board where House explains that the fetus is dying and could take the
mother with it. House decides to paralyze the fetus and Cuddy confronts him on it. He tells her
that Cameron and Chase are making out in the hospital, then agrees to let House get Emma’s
consent. . . and accompanies him. Emma agrees and Cuddy reassures her that House is the
person to handle the situation. The subsequent tests show the bladder is four times normal size
because of a urinary tract and Cuddy takes over the case. She talks to Cameron about her dating
Chase and warns that Chase won’t be the one to get hurt.
Cameron finds House relaxing in a hyperbaric chamber and building up his tolerance for
high pressures for his upcoming vacation, and she confronts him about talking to Cuddy. He
ducks the matter while Cuddy tells Emma about the treatment they have planned to relieve the
pressure on the fetus’ bladder. She then finds House in her office and he questions her diagnosis
of bladder blockage, warning the first two tests will be inconclusive. He suggests that Cuddy is
sympathizing with Emma as they are both older women having a baby through insemination.
Cuddy decides to hand the case back to House.
The third test proves positive and Chase gives the results to Emma, who is thankful things
will turn out okay. Emma realizes that Chase is having an affair with Cameron. They prepare to
treat the baby but discover she is jaundiced and her liver is shutting down. House believes the
fetus ”lied” and the urinary tract infection is just a sign of something else. With time running out,
House suggests there is only one sure cure: to deliver the baby at 21 weeks, two weeks earlier
than when it is viable. House breaks the news to Emma and she wants to wait the two weeks,
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but House warns she won’t last two days. She refuses to have an abortion and demands House
fix it so they can both live.
House goes to Cuddy who refuses to go to Emma and back House. It’s back to differential
diagnosis with Cuddy running the board. Cuddy suggests a treatment and Cameron reluctantly
backs her, suggesting they go through the veins in the neck to get to the liver. House mentions
Cameron and Chase are dating out, much to Foreman’s surprise. They go with it while Cuddy
suggests that an unenthusiastic House go on vacation. Chase and Foreman go with the procedure but the fetus’ heart rate drops and Emma goes into pre- term labor. They manage to get
the contractions to subside but warn they’ll have to remove the fetus. Cuddy insists on finding
the problem and suggests they have to check the undeveloped lungs. Cuddy suggests they use
steroids to increase the lung growth and the staff refuse. Cuddy goes off to do it and Emma has
another seizure. Wilson goes in to suggest it’s time to terminate and Cuddy tells him to help or
get out.
Later a concerned Cuddy goes to Wilson and admits that everyone was right and Emma’s
lungs are shutting down. She wants to know what House would do if he was in her position, and
Cuddy concludes that Emma doesn’t need her lungs because she’s on a machine, so she’s put
the fetus back on steroids. Cuddy goes to House who is packing for his vacation and agrees to
look at the tests now that the baby’s lungs have expanded. They go back to the hospital and try
to figure out a way to examine the lungs more thoroughly. They finally decide to do exploratory
surgery and explain things to Emma. She agrees and they take her into surgery where House
performs the operation. During the operation the baby’s hand emerges and briefly grasps House’s
hand. They find lesions in the baby’s lungs but Emma goes into defib. House prepares to cut the
umbilical but Cuddy insists on applying the paddles until Emma revives.
House informs Emma that the baby is now fine and Emma thanks him. House tells her to
thank Cuddy because he would have killed the kid. Chase meets with Cameron who notices a
photo that Emma took of him, one that shows him ”glowing,” from earlier when he was talking
about Cameron. Cuddy gives House a ticket for a vacation in Canada and he tells her she made
the wrong call and got lucky. Cuddy is fine with her decision and tells him to go get happy. House
goes home and rips up the ticket, then takes the phone off the hook and settles down for a night
of television and Vicodin. . . while he considers where the baby touched him. Much later, Emma
is hanging up photos of the staff and taking care of her baby at her home.
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Airborne
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Episode Number: 64
Season Episode: 18
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David Hoselton
Elodie Keene
Gregory House)
Ben Carroll (Businessman), Gayla Goehl (Businesswoman), Jenny
O’Hara (Fran), Tess Lina (Keo), Meta Golding (Robin) , Connor Webb
(12-year-old Boy), Melissa Kite (Sour Faced Girl), Pej Vahdat (Foreign Man), Krista Kalmus (Joy), Jamison Yang (Peng), Karla Droege
(Mother)
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On House and Cuddy’s flight from Singapore a passenger gets ill and
Cuddy suspects an epidemic. At the hospital, Wilson leads the team
as they deal with a middle-aged woman suffering from seizures.
An older woman at her home, Fran, answers the door and greets Robin, a younger woman
working for an ”agency.” Robin finally quotes her a price of $1,000, satisfaction guaranteed, and
when Fran goes to get the money and finds her cat up on the shelf, Robin slips into a slinky
dress. Fran starts to get dizzy then collapses and Robin is unable to wake her up. She grabs the
money then calls an ambulance.
Wilson examines Fran and Robin is there covering for their activities. Wilson finds a motionsickness patch and concludes that’s responsible. Wilson removes the patch and Fran has a
seizure and collapses. Meanwhile, House and Cuddy are getting on a plane after House gives a
speech in Malaysia and cranks up a considerable bill at the hospital’s expense. He manages to
cover it by downgrading Cuddy to Coach.
Wilson questions Fran and determines she went to Caracas recently and had a number of
drug and sexual escapades. On the plane, a man next to House starts vomiting and he manages
to trick Cuddy into switching places with him.
Wilson goes over Fran’s case with House’s staff and sends them out to check things out.
Cuddy confronts House and they disagree on the diagnosis including the man’s rash, and House
tries to reassure the stewardess. Chase and Cameron go to Fran’s house and after discussing
their relationship, Cameron decides to have sex on the bed while the cat looks on.
On the plane, another person starts vomiting and House notices she has the same rash. With
Cuddy busy, House rounds up the passengers to stand in for his staff while running a differential
diagnosis. They’re too far to turn around at this point and Cuddy shows up to eliminate the possibilities. House concludes it’s food poisoning from the sea food kabobs and tells the passengers
to go to the restrooms to vomit.
The staff turns up nothing on Fran’s tests and Wilson figures she has breast cancer. Meanwhile House forces the first victim to get up so he can determine if he has weakness of the joints,
which he does.
Wilson confronts Robin and tries to figure out what her relationship to Fran is. He asks her to
stand in as Fran’s friend and Robin reluctantly agrees. Cameron administers a mammogram as
Robin stays for Fran and tries to reassure her that she didn’t do anything stupid. Fran complains
of blindness in her right eye.
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House now believes that radiation sickness is responsible and the second victim is pregnant
and her symptoms are similar but not from the same source. However Cuddy interrupts him to
point out he’s wrong. . . as she starts vomiting and gets a rash.
While Fran undergoes eye tests, House determines Cuddy is photosensitive and she asserts
they need medicine before the illness spreads any further. Robin finally leaves but asks Wilson
to let her know what happens to Fran. Cameron is discussing her relationship with Chase, with
Foreman, when Fran passes out.
House goes through the plane collecting any medicine he can while back at the hospital, the
staff disagrees on the diagnosis for Fran until finally Chase agrees with Cameron on her proposed
lumbar puncture test but it turns out they’re wrong.
House and Cuddy conclude they have to tap into the first victim’s spinal cord with a LP despite
the fact the airplane isn’t stable. House determines that the fluid is clear which supposedly shows
bacterial meningitis and informs the passengers to let him know as soon as they show symptoms.
They start showing the symptoms he mentions and House announces they’re suffering from mass
hysteria. He points out that even Cuddy fell victim to the hysteria, but that leaves them with one
problem: what is the problem with the first patient, Pang.
It’s back to what passes for a white board on the plane and House figure that a condom is
responsible: Pang is a drug mule who is smuggling cocaine in his stomach and the condom burst,
spreading the cocaine throughout his system and causing his illness. They’ll have to operate to
save him.
As they take Fran into surgery, Chase wonders if their relationship is compromising their
judgment. Then he remembers that the cat’s bowl at the house was full.
House prepares to operate while Chase goes back to Fran’s house and finds the cat dead. He
goes to the basement and finds an open pipe. House prepares to cut Pang open but then the boy
helping him presses down, causing an easing of the pain. House figures that pressure on his
joints relieves his pain, so checks his wallet.
Wilson and Foreman prepare to drill in to Fran’s skull while Chase follows the pipe outside
and over to the next house which is being fumigated. He calls Cameron who stops the operation.
House goes through Pang’s wallet and finds he was scuba diving: he has the bends due to the
low pressure from the flight.
The staff explains to Fran that she got a dose of the fumigation poison, and she says that she
thought she was being punished.
The plane lands safely and House points out that Cuddy owes him. She denies it and as they
leave, the stewardess hits on House. Wilson calls Robin to reassure her. . . and ask her out. As
Cameron and Chase leave, Chase says he wants more and she refuses, saying it’s over.
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Act Your Age
Season 3
Episode Number: 65
Season Episode: 19
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Sara Hess
Daniel Sackheim
Gregory House)
Marcus Folman (Security Guard), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Ellery
Sprayberry (Girl), Joel David Moore (Eddie), Carla Gallo (Janie), Slade
Pearce (Jasper), Bailee Madison (Lucy), E. Erich Anderson (Deran)
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A 6-year-old girl suffers ailments expected in patients much older.
Tensions between Chase and Cameron lead House to intentionally assign them to the same tasks, including investigating the young girl’s
home.
At a pre-school, a father checks on his 8-yaer-old son Jasper who is bleeding after a fight.
His daughter Lucy comes over but the father is distracted when the boy’s nose continues to
bleed, and their mother died some time ago of cancer. The boy’s nose stops bleeding. . . but Lucy
collapses, breathing erratically.
Cuddy comes into House’s office to try to catch him with the case file as he goes out the door.
He orders the staff to do a round of tasks and it soon becomes clear Cameron and Chase are
fighting after their break-up. Chase leaves early and the next day comes up with the possibility
of a fungus. Cameron administers tests and Lucy displays signs of blurred vision. It’s back to
differential diagnosis and House focuses on Lucy’s knees, suspecting rheumatoid arthritis. He’s
more interested in the fact he has two play tickets as he sees a student patient at the clinic, and
insists Wilson take the tickets for a date with the woman he’s seeing. Wilson reluctantly accepts
while the patient admits he can’t produce a urine test anywhere publicly, and wants to head
home.
Foreman brief’s Lucy’s father Deran on her condition but the girl has a stroke as they watch.
They dissolve the clot and try to account for the thick blood, caused by lack of oxygen. They
suspect Deran smokes and House sends Cameron and Chase to check out the house. As they
leave, Jasper gives Cameron a bouquet and clearly has a crush on her. Cameron gives him a kiss
just to make Chase jealous and then they head for the house, while Jasper explores the hospital
until he’s brought back to his father.
Cameron and Chase argue over their relationship and check out a vent under Lucy’s bed,
where they find a t-shirt with blood on it. They suspect Deran is abusing Lucy but Foreman
disagrees, and Cameron suggests sexual abuse. House isn’t thrilled they have to waste time on it
and orders a full physical exam. Foreman confronts Deran directly and tells him to okay a vaginal
exam, and the father agrees to save time. Cameron conducts the physical and discovers she has
cuts across her groin. Foreman suggests they check the blood while House confronts his patient
and points out he gave him someone else’s urine sample. Cuddy confronts House and insists
he should call Social Services, while he figures out she went to the play with Wilson. He talks
to Wilson who denies having sex with Cuddy, and Foreman announces that they’ve discovered
she’s starting puberty.
House and the staff try to figure out how she has excess hormones and House concludes
it’s a tumor, overriding Cameron’s objections. Chase and Foreman run test and debate Chase’s
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relationship, and find a tumor. Meanwhile Wilson goes to House and says Cuddy sent him flowers
and figures she wants to get together with him again, then runs off in a panic when he spots
Cuddy. As House walks off, he mentions to Cuddy that he sent Wilson the flowers.
Cameron runs into Jasper who wants to know of Chase is her boyfriend. As she takes him
back to his father, he cops a feel. Foreman and Chase operate on Lucy to remove the tumor but
her heart stops. Chase suggests they stop the therapy but Foreman determines the tumor is a
benign cyst. Foreman leaves them alone to work things out overnight. Cameron admits Chase
was right about Jasper and then apologizes to Chase for misleading him. He notes she didn’t and
claims she has feeling for him, but then Jasper charges at them, furious and biting. They call
House who isn’t too concerned and continues watching wrestling. Then he realizes that Jasper
is acting logically due to his aggression. . . because his hormone levels are too high.
The tests show Jasper has a hundred times more testosterone than normal. Chase suspects it’s something genetic and they wonder if the mother might have had similar symptoms.
Lucy complains of stomach pains and they find cysts in her organs. With time running out, the
mother’s record is clean along with the environmental tests and Cameron suggests they should
remove her pituitary with brain surgery, and House has no choice but to agree. Cameron goes to
the father but House argues against it, but Cameron goes with the sympathy angle by mentioning her dead husband, and Deran agrees. House responds by manufacturing a fake wife, but the
father agrees with Cameron. But House realizes the father knew the other kids at the pre-school
weren’t sick when he shouldn’t have, and concludes something is up.
House goes to the pre-school and concludes the teacher Janie is dating Deran. She says she’s
never been to their house but he notices she’s had her lips waxed. He realizes that her excessive
hair is a result of hormones and the father uses an estrogen-based male enhancement cream. It
got onto his skin through the pores and he gave it to the children and Janie when he touched
them, and they’ll be fine once Deran stops using the cream.
House goes to see Wilson who is wondering if he should explore a relationship with Cuddy.
Wilson decides to just go up to her and kiss her and House. . . says nothing. Wilson then storms
in angry because he knew House sent the flowers. House points out that Wilson really wants to
kiss her and he admits it. . . not.
As Chase and Cameron prepare to leave for the night, Chase leaves her flowers and Cameron
says she doesn’t want a relationship for him. Lucy and Jasper leave with Deran and Janie, while
Cuddy and House discuss May-September relationships, and House suggests they go to the play.
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House Training
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Episode Number: 66
Season Episode: 20
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Doris Egan
Paul McCrane
Gregory House)
Monique Gabriela Curnen (Lupe), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Aulani
Rhea (Nurse), Thomas Lee Webbs (Nurse), Charles F. Porter (Operator), Jane Adams (Bonnie), Beverly Todd (Alicia Foreman), Charles S.
Dutton (Rodney Foreman)
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The doctors try to find what’s wrong with a scam artist who collapses
after her brain ”freezes,” but the case becomes personal for Foreman.
A con man is running three-card monte on a woman who suddenly can’t decide what card to
select. She collapses and the guy runs off.
The woman, Lupe, wakes up and talks to Foreman who identifies her condition as TIA caused
by abulia, causing her brain to ”freeze.” While Chase and Foreman discuss the fact she’s a scam
artist who goes from job to job to collect unemployment and whether it means she has drugs,
House notices Wilson meeting with his ex-wife. Lupe’s drug test proves clean and House goes off
to talk to Wilson, who says his ex needs to have him take care of their dog Hector. House is more
interested with the fact Cuddy turned him down for a date to a play and Wilson reveals she is
going out with him instead to an art gallery exhibit.
As Chase and Foreman leave to check out Lupe’s apartment, they run into Foreman’s father
Rodney and he suggests that Foreman talk to his mother, who he’s been avoiding for eight years
and who has Alzheimer’s. At Lupe’s apartment they find drugs and Chase goes to run the tests,
leaving Foreman to have to go to dinner with his parents.
House spars with Cuddy over her dating and she thinks he’s jealous. Foreman arrives at
his parents’ hotel room and his mother is glad to see him. Later he returns to the hospital
where Lupe starts coughing up blood and goes into respiratory arrest. Cameron and Chase run
tests on her, and Chase notes he’s still available despite Cameron’s denials. They spot a mass
and conclude she has autoimmune. Foreman recommends steroids and House agrees with the
(boring) treatment. House then leaves to check out condos with Wilson’s wife Bonnie, a real
estate agent. He not-so-subtly asks her about Wilson’s dating habits, while Wilson and Cuddy go
to the art exhibit where they realize they’re at the wrong exhibit and the one they’re at has exotic
artwork. Bonnie wants House to persuade Wilson to take Hector while he keeps talking about
her romantic and sex relationship.
While Foreman tends to Lupe, she figures out he doesn’t like her because of her drug use,
and she starts coughing again. He determines from the yellow in her eyes that her liver is failing
and she’ll need a transplant, and three of her organs are getting worse. Foreman now suspects
cancer and proposes full radiation treatment. House agrees and goes to get her consent and
discuss Foreman. She goes into brain freeze again then passes out.
House chats with Wilson who wants to know why he was talking to Bonnie. House says he
plans to work out why Wilson keeps going wrong in his relationships and says he has to have
sex with Cuddy: Wilson is not amused. As they prepare Lupe for radiation treatment, she starts
screaming in pain from the pressure of the blood cuff.
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The staff concludes she’s septic as a result of the steroid treatment Foreman ordered, and he
agrees to tell her what they’ve done. Later Bonnie comes to see House to show him a new condo
and he admits he doesn’t plan to buy one. She confronts him saying that House never cared
about her and he didn’t help as far as her marriage breaking up. House is unapologetic and she
leaves.
Foreman goes to Wilson on advice about how to break the news and he suggests that Foreman
show her how upset he is. Foreman than goes to tell her she has less than 24 hours and there’s
nothing they can do about it. She screams at him to get out. Outside, Wilson slams his fist into
a wall in anger. He goes to Cameron to get his hand bandaged and finds out House is preparing
an aspiration for her. Foreman goes to confront him as he tries to figure out what they missed.
Foreman tells him to wait. He then goes to see Lupe who admits she has no friends and her
passing won’t make much difference. As they wait for her to die, Foreman admits she was right
when she said earlier he had a problem with her, and that he made some bad decisions, then
worked to overcome them. He concedes he still proves himself and when he went home in his last
year of college, it was the last time he felt at home. She admits that she made things up about
how she never had a chance as well.
Foreman watches over her as she dies, then calls in House to do his tests. Chase tries to
comfort Foreman by suggesting he talk to God. House discovers she scratched herself with her
bra hook, which let a staph infection get in. He breaks the news to Foreman who isn’t comforted.
House says it won’t be Foreman’s last mistake, or his.
House heads out with Wilson, and reveals that he’s keeping Hector. Foreman meets with
his mother and admits he hurt someone and it was his fault. She forgives him. . . but doesn’t
remember who he is.
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Family
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Liz Friedman
David Straiton
Gregory House)
Dabir Snell (Matty), Greg Cipes (Salesman), Adina Porter (Claudia),
Jascha Washington (Nick), Thomas Mikal Ford (Scott)
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Wilson prepares to transplant bone marrow from Matty to his brother
Nick. But when Nick gets sick, the team must cure him as he’s the
only safe donor. Meanwhile Foreman deals with the consequences of
his mistake and House has a battle of wills with his new pet Hector.
Nick prepares to see his brother Matty, who is receiving chemo for leukemia in isolation. He
and his mother go in to see him. Wilson is preparing to take bone marrow from Nick to give to
Matty when Nick sneezes, indicating he’s not healthy.
House wakes up at his house in the morning to discover Wilson’s dog Hector in his face and
his belongings chewed up. Later staff meets to talk about Nick’s infection because there are no
other donors available and Matty only has five days to live. However, House is more concerned
about Foreman’s whereabouts. They track him down him in the chapel where he is considering
the patient he killed. House prods him into getting involved then suggests that they weaken
Nick’s immune system so they can advance the infection so they can diagnose it. House and
Wilson go to the parents who reluctantly agree.
Chase and Foreman go to the family’s house to check for environmental sources and discuss
their concerns over patients they’ve lost. Chase then takes a sample from an outdoor water
pump.
At the hospital, they lower Nick’s temperature to advance the infection and Chase and Foreman ask him about the pump, but he says he hasn’t drunk anything from it in over a year.
Nick now has a swollen scrotum and muscle pains. House lets Foreman go look for donors while
Chase gives Cameron his weekly reminder he’s interested in her, then suspects that the swollen
scrotum indicates they drove the infection into his heart causing injury there.
They find a growth on the heart valve and House proposes they remove it but Foreman believes
antibiotics would suffice. However, there’s no way to clear his system in time but House suggests
it will let them get the bone marrow. Foreman objects and goes to Cuddy with Wilson and House.
House pretty much sits out the argument and after she tells them to explain the situation to the
parents, he admits to her that he’s giving Foreman a little slack because of his lack of confidence.
He’s giving Foreman four days to get over it.
Wilson goes to the parents and convinces them to agree to the heart surgery, even though it
will cripple Nick. They agree and Wilson is guilty that he persuaded them to do, and the parents
feel guilty that Nick’s love is driving him to undergo the operation. However, Wilson does a biopsy
to determine the growth on the heart is fibrous, not a tumor, so he called off the surgery. He calls
House who is more concerned about the fact Hector has eaten half of his Vicodin.
House comes back in for a differential and they try to determine what would cause the fibrous
growth. Cameron suggests it might be auto-immune, which would mean the bone marrow is
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uncontaminated. Foreman reports they’ve come up with a donor who is a four-out-of- six match
but House wants to diagnose the auto-immune and orders tests. Cameron prepares to administer
the test when Nick starts bruising on his arm, indicating he’s getting worse. Wilson wants to
know how Hector got hold of the Vicodin and House admits that he’s getting tired of the dog
that is chewing everything up. Cameron reports to House that Matty’s tests are negative, but
they’re unaware that Foreman has secretly gone to the parents to tell them of the donor that are
available.
House and Wilson end up talking to the parents who want them to go with the donors despite
the risk that they may not match exactly. The parents insist on going with the donor and Wilson
isn’t happy that Foreman undercut them. House defends Foreman for at least standing up for
what he believed, and attacks Wilson for not being direct with the parents and telling them what
to do.
House arrives home after leaving his door open ”accidentally” but Hector is still there. Unfortunately, somebody took off with House’s stereo. The next day Matty wants to see his brother
but can’t due to his infection, and believes Nick will die. Matty is itching and Cameron sees that
he’s bleeding out of his ear.
House meets with Wilson to buy a new cane then apologizes to him for his earlier attack. . . then
claims he didn’t mean it. Cameron calls him with the news that Matty’s bone marrow is crashing.
House decides to stop the treatment to determine what’s responsible. . . then buys a new cane
with flame trim.
The staff goes back to differential but they can’t diagnose Matty because the parents are trying to treat him so they can’t figure out the symptoms. House then suggests they give Matty’s
infection to Nick, because he has no defenses and they can observe the rapidly-spreading infection and figure out what it is. They have no choice and go back to the parents, explaining that
Nick is going to die either way but at least they can get a diagnosis and cure Matty. The parents
refuse and Foreman suggests they start testing for all the thousands of possible infections. As
Foreman goes to start testing, House goes to see the suffering Nick and convince him to save
Matty by agreeing to take on his infection.
Wilson and Foreman check the tests and Wilson notes that House will probably fire Foreman.
Foreman is more interested in finding the source of the infection, but Wilson then wonders why
they have a water pump when they live in the suburbs. Matty tells his parents he wants to save
his brother and they agree, but then Foreman bursts in to reveal they’ve figured out Matty’s
infection is the result of chicken feces in the dirt he used to make a baseball mound. However,
Matty is too low on bone marrow. Foreman talks to Matty who still wants to go through with the
transplant. Foreman painfully extracts the bone marrow from him sans sedation.
Later Wilson has to face the parents and suggests House should talk to Foreman, but he isn’t
interested now that Foreman is back to ”normal.” House has Hector in his office and has figured
out a way to keep him calm: giving him Wilson’s stethoscope. Wilson announces that his ex has
convinced her apartment board to allow pets. Wilson suggest that House keep Hector but he’s
having nothing of it. House then goes to talk to Foreman as he watches the parents meet with
their sons and Foreman admits he did what House would have, but he doesn’t like it. . . and gives
his two weeks’ notice.
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Resignation
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Episode Number: 68
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Pamela Davis
Martha Mitchell
Gregory House)
Lyndsy Fonseca (Addie), Tony Spiridakis (Ben), Eve Gordon (Jody),
Piper Perabo (Honey), Tracy Howe (Steve), Shonda Farr (Jamie), Bayani
Ison (Sensei), Wayne Sable (Kyle), Kwabena Darkwah (Daniel)
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The team deals with a 19-year-old college student, while Foreman suddenly and without a reason hands in his resignation. House seems to
have already found Foreman’s replacement, an attractive nutritionist
named Honey.
Two college students are sparring at a dojo when the girl Addie becomes increasingly violent
then collapses, spitting blood. The staff checks her out but they’re more interested in the fact
that Foreman has announced his resignation. House orders tests and while Chae tries to get
an answer from Foreman on the reason for his resignation, Addie displays goosebumps. House
suspects an infection in her lungs and orders a biopsy, then goes to see Wilson and notices
he’s yawning. Wilson simply claims he’s tired and wonders if House doesn’t believe Foreman is
quitting.
Addie’s tests prove negative but House wonders what might cause her to display the symptoms
of an infection. Foreman laughs at one of House’s jokes and Chase wonders why Foreman now
finds his superior humorous. Addie goes into convulsions and they run a spinal tap. There are
minute traces of blood in the sample and House believes this indicates an infection, and orders
his staff to check the lungs. He then meets with a clinic patient and his girlfriend, a nutritionist
named Honey, and the man complains about floating bowel movements, and he’s a vegan. While
he goes out to pick up some amphetamines, staff report that Addie’s lungs are clear but House
still believes there’s an infection and they suspect her body is unable to fight infection and they
should try to fight the continuing infections. House then returns to say that Honey’s boyfriend is
cheating on her. . . by eating meat.
Chase administers a macular test to Addie by checking her eyes, while House grinds up the
amphetamines and puts them in a cup of coffee which he gives to a suspicious Wilson. He then
talks about hiring Honey, then the staff report the test was negative but House believes he’s still
right about the infection. They go with a MRI and Foreman admits to Cameron that he’s quitting
because he doesn’t want to be like House. Foreman admits he thinks Cameron is a jerk and he
is becoming a jerk like House. Addie’s head starts to hurt and she starts bleeding from the top of
her skull.
House believes an infection is still responsible and Chase wants to give her steroids for autoimmune, but it will kill Addie if they’re wrong. They prepare for a heart attack which will confirm
House’s diagnosis, while Cuddy confronts House and wants to know if he’s talked to Foreman
about his resignation. Cameron holds off on shocking Addie.
Foreman goes to see Wilson who is unwittingly on amphetamines. Wilson tells him that House
wants him to stay, then goes off to see a patient and makes her nervous. Wilson figure out what’s
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going on and confronts House, who cheerfully admits what he did and notes that Wilson is still
yawning, which means he’s taking anti-depressants and has to take Vicodin to calm down.
House goes to bed and wakes up to find Cameron over him. She tells him that Addie’s kidneys
have shut down and Chase was wrong. The new symptoms confirm an infection and the steroid
treatment will make the next infection worst. House is happy that he diagnosed it early on but
wants to wait until she has a stroke or heart attack to confirm.
Addie finally goes into v-fib and Foreman brings her back, then congratulates House. He notes
that House doesn’t know her name or her parents’ name, but House isn’t concerned. House figure
Foreman doesn’t want to quit when he notices Foreman is trying to get him to mellow a bit, and
won’t admit he wants Foreman to stay.
House goes to break the news to Addie and her parents and she doesn’t to hear why she’s
dying. House prepares to leave then wonders why she’s not interested and is smiling and happy.
House finally realizes what he’s been missing and goes to Wilson, who’s recovering from amphetamine withdrawal. House realizes that Wilson has been slipping him anti-depressants in
his coffee, making him ”happy.” House realizes he’s been missing something else. . . and goes in
to kick the parents out of Addie’s room while telling them she’ll leave. He realizes she’s been
suffering from depression and tried to killer herself by taking kitchen cleaner that she put in a
slow-dissolving gel cap. Her body started to heal the damage but damaged the veins causing a
”bridge” that let the bacteria into an artery and spread throughout her body. She admits she’s
never been happy and asks House not to tell her parents. He agrees in return for her promising
she won’t do it again and she does, but House is skeptical.
Surgery fixed Addie and House breaks the law and tells the parents what really happened,
then suggests they might get her on meds. The parents want to call her if they have any questions,
and House tells them no.
Cuddy meets with Foreman as they watch Addie’s operation, and tells him there are worst
things to turn into, but Foreman doesn’t believe it. House meets with Honey at a bar and it turns
out he wants to date her. He lays out all of his character flaws but she’s impressed with his
truthfulness and he has a cup of her tea. . . when he hates tea.
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The Jerk
Season 3
Episode Number: 69
Season Episode: 23
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Leonard Dick
Daniel Sackheim
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Chase), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron)
Kyra Da Costa (Female Proctor), Cindy Lu (Nurse), Jack Maxwell (Male
Proctor), Ben Bledsoe (Opponent), Katie Boggs (Screaming Girl), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), David Bowe (Doug), Dustin Joiner (Mark),
Colleen Flynn (Enid), Nick Lane (Nate)
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House treats a 16-year-old chess prodigy who gets everyone on the
team annoyed with his behavior. Foreman is upset with House because
he thinks his boss sabotaged his job interview with another hospital.
At a speed chess match, Nate is playing against an opponent and taunts him with his inevitable victory. Nate wins the game but when his opponent offers him congratulations, he hits
him with a clock and then beats him bloody before collapsing from head pains.
After differential diagnosis and an initial conclusion of cluster headaches leading to Nate’s
aggressive personality, Chase snubs Foreman about giving him a recommendation for his upcoming job application, and tends to Nick treating him for the headaches. Nate’s mom is relieved
that the treatments might alter her son’s obnoxious personality. . . for the better.
The next day Chase reports the treatments aren’t working and Foreman complains to House
that someone canceled his interview behind his back. Foreman tells House to either admit he
wants him to stay or let him go, but House claims it wasn’t him. He the goes to Cuddy and
accuses her of sabotaging Foreman’s interview but she denies it. He then asks her for hallucinogenic mushrooms to treat Nate and she reluctantly agrees. Nate’s mother Enid agrees as
well and Nate goes through hallucinations and exposes himself, where Cameron notices he has
undersized testes, and they suspect a brain tumor. Enid agrees to it but Nate argues against it,
and Nate blacks out from jaundice as his liver shuts down.
It’s back to differential diagnosis and House suggests they stuff him full of meat (as Nate has
been recently gone to a vegetarian diet) and test Nate once his ammonia levels spike. Foreman
goes to Cuddy who offers to double his salary and set him up with his own diagnostic group.
Foreman refuses and Cuddy admits she sabotaged his interview. . . then doesn’t, to get him to
admit he’s not sure if House did it. Meanwhile, Chase finally blows up at Nate and tells him to
eat the meat, and has him restrained if he doesn’t go along. Nate reluctantly agrees.
Cuddy goes to Wilson and accuses him of sabotaging Foreman’s interview. Wilson admits that
he wants Foreman to go so House will realize he has limits and can’t get everything he wants.
She thinks he’s lying and points out that whoever sabotaged Foreman’s interview made sure he
was leaving.
House meets with a man at a clinic who is sunburned and has white spots. House figures out
the man’s son put coins on him while the guy was sleeping. The tests on Nate prove negative and
House orders him to fast to test his blood sugar levels. Nate goes into another rage and urinates
blood on the floor.
In differential diagnosis they determine the bloody urine is from kidney failure. Foreman
takes off for another job interview then later gives Nate a sedative so he can take a blood sample
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in peace, despite Enid’s complaints. Wilson goes to Cameron and accuses her of sabotaging
Foreman’s interview, claiming Cuddy plans to fire him. Cameron quickly figures out he’s lying
about being fired and he figures she sabotaged the interview. Cameron claims she doesn’t care
about House and Wilson doesn’t believe her.
Cameron then runs the tests with Chase and she accuses Chase of sabotaging the interview,
just because he doesn’t like Foreman. He denies it then makes his weekly advance toward her.
They then discover a partial deficiency indicating a degenerative disease, Kelley-Seegmiller, but
Cameron argues Nate isn’t displaying sufficient aggressiveness. House suggests they speed up
the degeneracy by applying more stress, while Chase gets the mother out of the way.
House wheels in a chess board to Nate’s room and gives him an adrenaline shot. The game
begins and they go back and forth until Nate gets House in what he claims is an untenable
position, but then has a seizure. House considers the chessboard and talks to Foreman about
his interview and who he provided as references. House eliminates the personality problems
under the assumption Nate is just a jerk and orders a new bone marrow treatment for what he
believes is amyloidosis. Foreman takes a nerve sample for a biopsy while Nate notes he sucks at
treating him.
The new tests prove negative and foreman suspects an infection. House still believes it’s an
amyloid build-up. When Foreman gives in, House notes that Foreman still trusts House more
then his own judgment. That night Chase confronts House and accuses him of sabotaging the
interview, figuring House is playing everyone against each other. House admits it and doesn’t
think it’d do any good for him to admit he wants Foreman to stay. House realizes they forgot to
take into account one symptom and determines Nate can’t bend his thumb because his bones
have formed abnormally. House concludes he has hemochromatosis: Nate’s body has absorbed
iron from food, and it’s built up in his joints. He orders regular dialysis for the rest of Nate’s
life. . . and points out that he would have won their chess game and Nate was bluffing.
House goes to see Foreman. . . but tells him to run the tests for amyloidosis again without
saying that he’s figured out what’s wrong with Nate.
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Human Error
Season 3
Episode Number: 70
Season Episode: 24
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Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran
Katie Jacobs
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron)
Stephen Markle (Dr. Gooding), Omar Avila (Esteban Hernandez), Mercedes Renard (Marina Hernandez), Liz Benoit (Nurse #2), Helena V.
Lewis (Nurse #3), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Kinsey McLean (Fisher),
Ken Luckey (Sowinski), Michelle Josette (Nurse #1), Lucas Ford (Pilot),
Eltony Williams (Co-Pilot), Kathryn Adams (Pretty Student #3), Tiya
Sircar (Student #1), John Bobek (Student #2)
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A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft. . . to see House about
the wife’s heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if
someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave
and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.
A Coast Guard rescue team is picking up a Cuban couple stranded in the water. They have
the woman on board but the man refuses to give up the suitcase he’s holding. They eventually
get him on board when he drops the suitcase, and he reveals the suitcase held his ailing wife’s
medical records. . . and they need to see Dr. House.
The couple is admitted to the hospital where Cuddy tries to get hold of House, who is busy
watching Foreman in the cafeteria. Wilson points out House should try to convince Foreman to
stay but House isn’t interested. He notes that House isn’t good with change, and is still playing
the same guitar he’s had since eighth grade. House orders Chase and Cameron to check up on
Marina and her husband Esteban, but Foreman is distracted and busy elsewhere. They come
back and Chase points out to Foreman that neither he or House want to leave, and wonders
what Foreman does want. Foreman determines that Marina has MS and suggests interferon
treatment. House agrees and (mildly) expresses his appreciation for Foreman’s contribution.
Foreman administers the interferon and her pain gets worse, and he inadvertently breaks
her wrist. House dismisses Chase belief that infection is responsible and House believes it’s
cancer. . . which Foreman also believes is responsible. Chase is angry that House is going along
with whatever Foreman says and later confronts House in his office. Before he can say anything,
House fires him and says he’s been there long enough and it’s time for a change.
As Cameron and Foreman run a MRI on Marina, Chase comes in to tell them the news.
Chase notices she has a hot spot. Everyone storms in to confront House over firing Chase and
Cuddy tells him to unfire him. House refuses even when Chase calls in to reveal that Marina
has a blood clot in her arm. Foreman explains to Esteban that the blood clot means Marina
has a heart problem and Esteban insists on seeing House, who hasn’t visited yet. Foreman
has Esteban sign a consent form for the treatment and then gives him House’s home number.
Esteban continues to call throughout the night while Cameron wants to know what Foreman
had to do with Chase’s firing while they administer a catheter. House comes in rather than talk
to Esteban just as Marina’s pulse stops. . . even though she’s still talking and breathing. House
has her cough to keep the blood flowing into her head and then they administer CPR rather
than bypass to damage the heart. House leaves them to take care of Marina and has a meeting
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with Wilson in the middle of an operation, via television. Wilson believes it’s human error on
Foreman’s part but House doesn’t believe it.
The team continues to administer CPR while Esteban wonders what’s going on and Cuddy
brings a student through. House interrupts her to ask her what might have caused the heart
stoppage. When Cuddy finds out Marina isn’t on bypass, she orders him to do so. Later Esteban
confronts House and demands answers. House decides to look directly at Marina’s heart and has
them jumpstart the heart to no effect, and the attending surgeon declares her dead.
Foreman is packing when Cameron arrives to give him a going-away present: the article he
stole from her. Foreman admits he’ll miss her and House sends them home. They want House
to tell the husband what’s going on but House refuses until they have answers. Cameron visits
Chase at a diner and he admits it is time for a change and House was right. He also admits
his ”thing” with Cameron was silly and she says she’ll miss him, but leaves before anything else
might develop.
Cuddy confronts House and accuses him of caring, but he denies it. She tells him it’s time
to let go and he goes to Esteban, who is praying in the chapel, and tells him his wife is dead.
Esteban goes to visit her one last time before they shut down the machine maintaining her heart.
The machines are shut down but Esteban detects a heart beat and shows House, believing it’s a
miracle. Marina wakes up and House wonders what has happened.
House meets with Cameron and Foreman and still insists there’s some reason, even though
the pain is gone. House suspects a genetic defect in an artery and orders another angiogram,
then goes to see the couple. He tells them he needs to fix the heart and asks permission to
do another angiogram, and admits he was wrong but they need to put Marina in his hands,
not God’s. They go ahead with the angiogram and they find the cause, which can be fixed with
surgery.
Later Cameron goes to Chase’s house and says it’s Tuesday: it’s Monday but she didn’t want
to wait. They kiss on the doorstep.
House is having supper when Wilson comes in just as Foreman is leaving. House finally breaks
down and asks him to stay, admitting Foreman is an important part of the team and needs him.
Foreman still plans to leave, saying he’s more interested in saving people then solving mysteries.
House accuses him of drawing out his whole resignation, and Foreman just leaves without saying
a word.
House goes to visit Cameron, who hands him her resignation letter. Cameron figures he’ll be
fine and she admits she’ll miss him as she leaves.
Later House and Esteban share a drink and cigars over the sleeping Marina. House admits
that he’s okay but doesn’t know what he’s going to do next. Later as he walks down the street
and finds a large box waiting for him. He takes it into his apartment and opens it to reveal that
he’s finally bought a new guitar.
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Season Four
Alone
Season 4
Episode Number: 71
Season Episode: 1
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Peter Blake, David Shore
Deran Sarafian
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson)
Liliya Toneva (Liz), Kay Lenz (Mrs. Bradberry), Conor Dubin (Ben),
Bevin Prince (Megan), Pat Millicano (Leon), Kathryn Adams (II) (Young
Doctor), Ken Takemoto (Sam Lee), Leo Vargas (Male Nurse), Maurice
Godin (Dr. Hourani), Xhercis (Imelda), Shannon McClung (Doug)
HOU-401
With his diagnostic team gone, House tries to diagnose a young woman
who survived an office building collapse. With the condition getting
worse, Cuddy puts pressure on House to hire a new team, but instead
attempts a differential diagnosis with help from the janitor.
A woman in an office, Megan Bradberry, is talking to her boyfriend Ben on the phone and she
declines to go to Star Wars with him. He calls back from the parking lot to apologize, and she
complains of wooziness, but the building collapses as he looks on.
Cuddy tries to get House interested in Megan’s case as she’s displaying further symptoms
after being dug out of the rubble. She also wants him to hire a new team, but he refuses. House
is more interested in playing his guitar and offers Cuddy a deal: if he can diagnose the girl by
end of day, she leaves him alone for a week. She agrees, although Wilson has her doubts. House
ends up recruiting the janitor to help him and after meeting with Megan, House offers to pay him
to break into her house to check things out.
House takes Wilson to Megan’s house after tricking him with a lunch invitation. They search
the house and House finds her secret diary. It turns out Megan was depressed until recently, and
he suspects medication that her boyfriend and mother didn’t know. House has the janitor ask
them to sign the release forms for dialysis treatment, and the janitor lets slip he’s not a doctor.
They go to Cuddy, and House manages to convince them they might not know enough about
Megan to be sure she wasn’t taking anti-depressants.
House goes to his office only to find his guitar missing. He quickly figures out Wilson has
kidnapped it, and Wilson insists he interview for his new team, but House points out he’s solved
the case. Cuddy tries to get through to Megan to find out what medication she was on but the
girl has a heart seizure.
Cuddy confronts House to note he lost his bet and he suckers into her helping on the differential. He then goes to Wilson and agrees to review the resumes, but Wilson keeps the guitar
until the interviews are done. House goes back to find Cuddy hasn’t come up with anything, and
suspects Megan has heart damage brought on by the collapse. They test her heart and it’s fine,
but her fever is back and House concludes she’s in DTs. Ben and Megan’s mother insist Megan
couldn’t have been taking drugs or alcohol. House proposes they give her alcohol and then taper her off, and it becomes clear Ben and Megan’s mother aren’t on good terms. However, Mrs.
Bradberry agrees to the treatment.
That night, House calls his first less-then-impressive applicant for an interview then pages
Wilson to the hospital while he searches Wilson’s hotel room for the guitar. House erases Wilson’s
Tivo in revenge, escalating the situation.
Megan starts to recover but they notice she’s unconscious but moving her mouth. Cuddy
realizes that she’s silently screaming. She confronts House with the fact his differential was
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wrong but refuses to discuss the matter further with him. House goes back to differential. . . with
his magic eight-ball. Cuddy interrupts, refusing to let Megan die, but House discovers Wilson
is starting to break apart his guitar. Wilson wonders why House is reluctant to hire a team
while he goes over Megan’s tests, and suggests he might be gunshy of being hurt. House has
determined that Megan is going to start internal bleeding and orders her into surgery. Cuddy
reluctantly enters into differential but argues that House needs a team, but he notices the size
of Megan’s uterus. Going into the operation room, he realizes she was recently pregnant and had
an abortion before Ben found out about it. He goes to talk to Ben, who is with the boyfriend of her
co-worker Liz who died in the collapse. House reveals that Megan was on the pill, which caused
the symptoms. Ben doesn’t believe Megan had the abortion but the blood tests are conclusive,
and it caused the bleeding. Ben grants him permission to administer an anti-cancer treatment.
Later House goes to see one of Wilson’s patients, San Lee. . . and moves him to a different
room to convince Wilson he’s been kidnapped. He goes to see Megan. . . who is collapsing from
the treatment, even though House insists he isn’t wrong.
Desperate for someone to talk to, House goes down to the ER but Cuddy has told everyone
not to talk to him. One doctor finally offers to help and suggest crush syndrome, and refuses
to acknowledge it might be a combination of symptoms that can’t be cured. House suggests she
give him her resume and then goes to see Megan. Ben and Megan’s mother are there and House
informs them Megan’s body is giving up and all they can do is maintain her with supportive
dialysis. He notices a lump on her arm and orders a biopsy, overriding Cuddy’s orders to the
lab technician. Megan has multiple growths, granulomas that signify an allergic reaction. Cuddy
puts Megan on steroids but they don’t know what she’s allergic to.
House is left to consider the white board while Wilson realizes his patient has disappeared
and confronts House. Wilson is concerned she gets the wrong meds which strikes a chord in
House. He gives Wilson Sam’s room number then goes to wake up Megan, pointing out that she’s
been lying about everything, but her lies can’t account for the allergy. House realizes that Megan
isn’t Megan: it’s her similarly-looking co-worker Liz, and Megan died. Ben mistakenly identified
the surviving Liz as his dead girlfriend Megan.
Ben and Mrs. Bradberry are left to mourn, while Cuddy points out that Cameron, Foreman,
and Chase would have solved the case days ago. She insists he hire a team and starts interviewing a room full of applicants. . . while playing his recovered guitar.
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The Right Stuff
Season 4
Episode Number: 72
Season Episode: 2
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Doris Egan, Leonard Dick
Deran Sarafian
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr.
Robert Chase)
Essence Atkins (Greta), Anne Dudek (Amber), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Kal Penn (Kutner), Heather Fox (Ashka),
Jonathan Sadowski (Mason), Carmen Argenziano (Henry), Edi Gathegi (Cole), Jason Manuel Olazábal (O’Reilly) , Andy Comeau (Brennan),
Meera Simhan (Jody), Melinda Dahl (Twin 15A), Caitlin Dahl (Twin
15B), Larkin Campbell (Dave), Jaimarie Bjorge (Beautiful Doctor), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Kathryn Adams (II) (Number 23)
HOU-402
House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for
NASA’s astronaut training program. Her diagnosis will be the test to
choose which ones of the 40 applicants are going to take the empty
spots in his team.
A pilot, Captain Greta Cooper, is flying in on an Air Force mission when she sees lightning
and the landscape suddenly turns into strange colors on her. It turns out she’s in a simulator
and complains to the designer after crashing it.
House is busy tormenting his forty applicants when Cuddy tells him he’ll have to narrow it
down. House fires one row and storms out, and Cooper manages to page him and offers him
$50,000 to secretly cure her problem, which she describes as seeing sounds. She wants to keep
it off the books so NASA doesn’t find out and disqualify her as an astronaut applicant. House is
intrigued and agrees, and has her present her symptoms to his applicants. He then splits them
up to run various tests. . . and wash his car. House meets with some of them but thinks he sees
Chase walking past outside. He then orders Cooper into a hyperbolic chamber to flush out excess
oxygen but she collapses with a heart attack. They try to defibrillate but it starts a fire in the
oxygen chamber, setting off the sprinklers.
Later, they determine the attack wasn’t caused by the treatment and House runs a differential.
He then sends them to run tests and look for infectious substances in the cafeteria, and chats
with Wilson, saying he saw Chase. Wilson confirms Chase is in the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and
suggests House is feeling repressed guilt. House isn’t amused. Meanwhile, the oldest applicant,
Henry, has one of the others do the tests.
The applicants check in with House who orders thyroid tests. One of them notices that Cooper
is restricting them, and her temperature starts going up. They inadvertently reveal they broke
into her house, and she starts hearing vision again while concerned that they’re going to out her.
Cooper panics and has a psychotic attack, locking herself in the chapel. They call House and he
tries to get her out, but he’s distracted by apparently seeing Cameron come in. Cooper bursts
out and they give her a sedative, and Cuddy wants to know who Cooper is.
Cuddy goes to the applicants for answers and they have to admit they don’t know much. . . until
one of the applicants squeals. Cuddy insists that House document everything. After figuring out
who squealed, House goes to the chalkboard and tries to figure out how to test Cooper without
having to document them for Cuddy. House gives them an hour then goes to Wilson to find out
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why Cameron is there. Wilson confirms she’s in Arizona where her and Chase are engaged, and
contends House is going to choose people he can’t stand. House picks up on the idea of stress
and suggests that they stress Cooper’s liver. Finally, the last guy House tried to fire suggests
they get her drunk. . . and use some of the other applicants as a control group, including House
himself.
House recruits a Mormon applicant, who objects on a religious basis, and they argue back
and forth. House takes a couple of drinks. . . and sees Foreman outside. House goes outside,
while Cooper has breathing problems but refuses treatment. Cuddy interrupts House’s pursuit
and wants to know why he’s ordered irrelevant tests, points out Foreman is working in New
York, and notices he’s been drinking. He returns to the room to find they’ve taken her to the
physical training room so they could give her oxygen off the records as part of a cardio-stress
test. House determines she has lung cancer or tuberous sclerosis, and tries to order a biopsy.
However, Cooper’s refuses and House tries to figure out a way to do it without scars. One of the
applicants, Taub the plastic surgeon, proposes they suggest she undergo elective plastic surgery
on her breasts so they have a reason for the scars.
They convince Cooper to undergo the surgery while Cuddy demands answers. However, House
points out she’ll let him do it and is just going through the motions, and she trusts him to do
what’s in Cooper’s best interests. She simply walks out.
Cooper undergoes surgery and they biopsy the lungs, finding cysts. Chase shows up to suggest a diagnosis, Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome. After removing the cysts, House confronts Wilson
who admits he called Chase in, Foreman is still in New York, but Cameron has been working in
E.R. for the last three weeks. House visits Cooper and says he called NASA and told them what
was up, as she posed a risk.
That night, House confronts the applicants and starts dismissing some of them, and telling
the others to come back the next day. He confronts Henry and observes he’s never been to med
school. The man admits he worked at Columbia as an administrative assistant and audited all
the classes, but never got a diploma. House offers him a position as assistant for now.
House then goes down to the E.R. where Cameron is, and reveals she’s been working there for
three weeks and gave Cooper House’s pager number. House admits he lied and didn’t tell NASA,
supposedly to keep her from crying and to make sure she stays safe. Cameron is skeptical and
notes that he wasn’t willing to kill her dream. House just walks away.
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97 Seconds
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David Platt
Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Hugh Laurie (Dr.
Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr.
Lisa Cuddy)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Taub),
Kal Penn (Kutner), Carmen Argenziano (Henry), Edi Gathegi (Cole),
Andy Comeau (Brennan), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Brian Klugman (Stark), Meera Simhan (Jody), Melinda Dahl (Twin),
Caitlin Dahl (Twin), Charlie Hofheimer (Almore), Kathleen York (Dr.
Schaffer), Mary Kate Schellhardt (Female Fellow), Reynaldo Rosales
(Handsome Fellow), Douglas Spain (Latino Fellow)
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The candidates are now two teams of five women and five men, competing on diagnosing and treating a wheelchair-bound man. Meanwhile
House does experiments on himself to test what happens after death,
and Foreman, at another hospital, is treating his team in a House-like
manner.
A guy in a wheelchair, Stark, gets out of his van and with his helper dog goes to the local ice
cream store. Stark passes out in the middle of a crosswalk and a woman driver narrowly avoids
hitting him.
House presents the case to the remaining applicants and splits them up into two teams, men
versus women. Amber wants to be on the men’s team but the men aren’t thrilled. The two teams
pit off against each other while Amber goes to Cameron and tries to get some insight into House.
While the teams compete over the patient, House visits a clinic patient, Almore, who pulls out
a knife and tries to electrocute himself by sticking it into a socket. House goes to Cuddy and
wonders about the knife-wielder, while she wonders if House knows what’s wrong with Stark.
In New York, Foreman runs a differential with his team and everything works out. Foreman
seems. . . distracted. Meanwhile, House ponders the suicidal man’s case with Wilson, who tells
him to talk to the patient.
Amber goes to the men’s team and admits they’re idiots so she can help them and get the
smarter women out of the competition. They agree and she gives them a diagnosis that Cameron
suggested: having bugs bite him. Stark starts to choke as his dog barks.
House meets with both teams for a differential and they suggest it relates to his trip to Thailand. The women’s team finally comes up with suggesting a stress test, while House penalizes
the men’s team for wasting time doing tests and suggests one of them isn’t a doctor.
It turns out that Foreman’s team is wrong with their diagnosis, and he snaps at them briefly
before considering the new symptoms of liver failure. House, meanwhile, goes back to his suicidal
patient and the man admits he was in a car crash a week earlier and had a near-death experience
during the 97 seconds he was dead. He insists it was the best 97 seconds of his life. House
provides the clinical explanation but the patient asserts he’s done drugs and there actually
something out there.
The men’s team wonder which one of them isn’t a doctor, while Amber insists they work out
a differential and Henry suggests that he might have cancer that is putting pressure on the
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esophagus and causing the symptoms. Amber slips underneath the camera, out the window,
and through Wilson’s office.
The women’s team conclude they’ve cured the patient when he doesn’t react to the stress.
Amber gets in and applies even more stress but nothing happens. One of the applicants, Thirteen,
reports to House but he’s more interested in whatever it is she’s hiding. House then holds a Tribal
Council to fire the men’s team, but Amber comes in and ran a CT scan, and reveals that Stark
needs steroids. House says she’s wrong but comes up with the correct solution as it relates to
his spinal problems and orders the women to administer treatment and release him.
Amber still believes her diagnosis was correct and goes to Chase, suggesting he help make
House’s life miserable. Chase is impressed enough with her scheming that he agrees to run the
tests Amber goes to test for the tumor. She takes a blood sample. . . and it’s green.
It’s back to differential with both teams and they determine his kidneys aren’t working. House
goes into differential for real, since he agreed with the women team’s diagnosis but now they’re
all wrong. They order a full range of tests and then House complains to Chase for running the
tests for Amber. Chase dismisses him and even Cameron is impressed. They confirm that Stark
now has pneumonia but House suspects cancer. Meanwhile, Foreman goes to his boss with their
diagnosis of cancer but she thinks he’s projecting.
House plans to remove Stark’s eye and Cuddy suggests he do a biopsy, but House insists the
surgery is necessary and that Stark has melanoma cancer. He takes Wilson along to explain that
it is spreading through his system, but if they remove the eye which contains the tumor, it could
delay the spread. Stark isn’t thrilled at the idea but wants to believe in a better place, but House
derides his beliefs and says there’s no afterlife. Wilson is furious and House asserts he doesn’t
need to die to know there’s no afterlife. He considers the patient’s knife, while Foreman considers
his white board then sneaks the patient into treatment.
The applicants start draining fluid from Stark’s lungs but there’s no blood, indicating it’s not
cancer. Amber gets a page from House and goes into his office just as he electrocutes himself
using the knife and an electrical socket.
The applicants wonder why House tried to kill himself, but Wilson comes in and says that he
was dead for nearly a minute but Amber managed to resuscitate him. House is still unconscious
and Wilson has them go over the case. He then considers House as he finally wakes up and
explains that he needed to know if there was an afterlife. House wants to talk to Almore. . . but
he died several hours ago. House suggests Stark needs a stronger dosage but Wilson has already
ordered it. Stark is having more trouble breathing and asks them to bring his dog over. He admits
he isn’t scared. . . and then dies. Amber tells House that Stark is dead, but he insists on seeing
the patient to make a diagnosis. She wonders why he called Amber and he claims that she’s
the only one who would have wanted him to stay alive so they could get the job. House ducks
answering.
House considers Stark’s corpse but notices that Stark’s dog is dead. House asks if Thirteen,
who was administering the medicine, saw him take the pills. She doesn’t remember, but House
realizes that Stark didn’t take the pills, but fed them to the dog. That way he could die peacefully
instead of go through months of suffering.
Cuddy berates for trying to kill himself while his patient was dying. Meanwhile, Schaffer
confronts Foreman on his patient, who is recovering. She isn’t happy with the fact he took a
gamble and fires him.
Thirteen is considering Stark’s body when House comes to see her. He gives her a lecture...
and refuses to fire her, figuring she won’t let it happen again. After she leaves, House thinks over
his near-death experience. . . and tells Stark’s corpse that ”I told you so.”
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Guardian Angels
Season 4
Episode Number: 74
Season Episode: 4
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David Hoselton
Deran Sarafian
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase),
Cuddy)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Carmen Argenziano
(Henry), Andy Comeau (Brennan), Edi Gathegi (Cole), Kal Penn (Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Azura Skye (Irene), Caroline Laferfelt (Connie), Scott Alan Smith (Dr.
Brady), Kenneth White (Old Man), Jerry Hauck (Martin)
HOU-404
House finds that some of his own fellowship students will do whatever
it takes, when they deal with a woman who believes she can talk to
the dead.
Irene is trimming hair for a corpse at a mortuary when she sees someone out of the corner
of her eye. Turning, she sees a Hispanic man standing there, saying nothing. Then he grabs a
pair of scissors and starts to cut open her blouse. . . but she sees his open skull. The dead man
from the table gets up behind her. A couple of minutes later her boss Martin comes in and finds
everything normal. . . except that Irene is having convulsions on the floor.
The fellowship applicants are waiting for House to show up and Amber tries to reassure
Thirteen. House calls in with their new cases and splits them up to check out Irene and the
mortuary. House mocks the Mormon applicant and Cameron makes a bet that he’ll fight back:
Meanwhile, Foreman is applying at a new hospital but the director knows about his disobeying
orders at his last hospital, and notes that Foreman might have picked up some bad habits from
House.
Back in differential, Cole is eager to get going and House concludes he has a child and has to
leave. He then orders the applicants to dig up the dead man from the mortuary and do a brain
biopsy. Later, Amber goes to Cuddy and asks for overtime, and Cuddy tells her to do what House
wants her to do rather then find an excuse to get out of it.
At the cemetery, Amber arrives three hours late but with coffee and doughnuts. She starts
talking to the mysterious Thirteen, who notes that House is intrigued by her since he can’t figure
her out. They open the coffin and get the body.
Cuddy quickly figures out what they were up to but doesn’t want to know. The applicants run
the tests and House finally arrives, but they’ve discovered nothing. Cole, Amber, and Thirteen
are testing Irene, who is talking to her mother. . . until they realize there’s no one there.
It’s back to differential to analyze the new neurological symptoms, and another round of tests.
Thirteen tries to comfort Irene, telling her that her mother is there, and Irene says there was a
man in a wheelchair present: Stark, the man Thirteen inadvertently got killed.
Cuddy offers Foreman a job and a raise and he considers the offer. The applicants tell House
about Irene’s new vision but he’s more interested in taunting Cole. Henry suggests they talk to
the dead mother and House goes to Irene’s room to ask her what her mother has to say. However,
Irene is seeing a new older man: House’s grandfather, who she can identify by name. House goes
to see Wilson and notes he doesn’t have a grandfather by that name. However, he’s pretending to
be spooked to convince Irene he believes in her delusions so he can ”talk” to her mother. House
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suspects Irene’s illness relates to how her mother died, and wants to see if Irene has the same
symptoms. He then gets up and visits Irene, who confirms that her mother fell down several times
and her hands shivered. House prescribes treatment for Parkinson’s based on the symptoms.
Cameron talks to Cole and suggests he fights back, noting that if he wants the job he’ll have
to get in House’s face. They try to administer the injection to Irene but she panics and sees them
seemingly attacking her, stabbing her in the arm. She wakes up and Thirteen tries to reassure
her, but Irene’s arm is actually bleeding.
It’s back to differential and Henry suggests retinal vasculitis, and House goes with it, then
mocks Cole gain. Cameron defends Cole and House speculates that she wants to control him.
Meanwhile, Foreman applies for another job and the man is impressed with Foreman’s rebellion,
but can’t get him past the board of directors.
They test Irene’s eyes as the patient still talks about Stark. Her and Amber are both surprised
when they find a dog collar like the one Stark’s pet had. Irene starts vomiting blood and goes into
surgery where Cole works on her with Chase. Chase notes House will probably fire Cole either
way but can’t say anything more because House is watching. They discover that Irene’s spleen is
necrotic, and she’s dying from the inside out.
In differential, they go over the symptoms and Taub is disagreeing with Henry over his lack
of credentials. When House goes with Henry’s ideas again, Taub wonders if House is feeding him
ideas. Meanwhile, Cole and Brennan administer an angiogram and she starts groping Cole and
convulsing. Having confirmed it’s not vascular, House goes after Cole again until he finally slugs
House. Amber finally figures out what she has: ergot poisoning, obtained from eating untreated
rye bread. It causes hallucinations and blood vessel constriction, causing the necrosis. They give
her the medicine and Irene realizes her mother isn’t there and the treatment is working.
Back in the classroom, House arrives to fire one of them. He keeps Amber, having realized
she planted the dog collar to toy with Thirteen. He keeps Thirteen and Cole as well, then Kutner
and Brennan. Finally he fires. . . Henry, realizing he doesn’t need Henry who knows what he’s
thinking.
Cameron collects her on her bet and notes that she’ll be protecting someone else. Foreman
meets with Cuddy and takes the job in return for a raise, an office, and a personal assistant.
She tells him to come back at his original salary, knowing that he’s been blackballed and he’s
got nowhere else to go. Foreman has no choice but to accept.
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Mirror, Mirror
Season 4
Episode Number: 75
Season Episode: 5
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David Foster (II)
David Platt
Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein
(Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr.
Eric Foreman)
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Edi Gathegi (Cole), Peter Jacobson (Taub),
Andy Comeau (Brennan), Anne Dudek (Amber), Kal Penn (Kutner),
Frank Whaley (Robert Elliott), Brendan Michael Coughlin (Mickey),
Luke Baybak (Tony)
HOU-405
House deals with a patient who mirrors the personality of anyone he
meets. Meanwhile, Foreman is put in charge of overseeing the fellowship candidates.
Two teenagers are preparing to mug a man as he comes out of a bar. They approach him but
he snaps at them. When one of them puts a knife to his throat, he starts coughing. One runs off
and the other one stops to call 911.
House is running a differential on the mystery man with his fellowship applicants when Cuddy
brings in Foreman and announces he’ll be supervising the group. House is less then thrilled and
orders exercise test to invoke Mr. X’s breathing problems again, then threatens to humiliate Foreman until he quits again. The applicants discover that Chase is running a pool on which of them
will drop out next. Mr. X has stomach pains and foot tingling on the treadmill, then collapses.
House disrupts Foreman’s attempts to run differential with the fellowship applicants but then
they get word Mr. X has collapsed. Foreman realizes that Mr. X is emulating the symptoms of the
patients around him, and House believes he has Mirror Syndrome, mirroring the characteristics
and symptoms of anyone he sees.
To test his theory, House takes the patient into the operating room where Wilson is performing
surgery. As Wilson starts to berate House for giving Foreman a hard time, Mr. X starts doing the
same thing, then tries to operate. House pulls off the man’s glove and realizes the man’s blood is
coagulating in his veins.
House still needs to find the cause of the man’s primary problem and checks for infection. He
then tries to get everyone out of the cafeteria with a mayonnaise panic over Foreman’s objections
to annoy Cuddy, and sends them to check Mr. X’s car keys. House sends Cole to check them out
and Thirteen volunteers to go with him. Amber and Taub administer tests and Mr. X mirrors their
personalities, echoing Amber’s insecurities and Taub’s attractiveness toward her. Taub finds a
lesion on the liver and House goes to Wilson, who reveals he has been reading up on Mirror
Syndrome. They tend to echo authority figures, and Wilson is amused that Mr. X mirrored him.
House finds that Cuddy has all of his applicants in the clinic and House tries to run a differential.
He then orders complete testing for all the uninsured patients.
Brennan runs a test on Mr. X and discovers he has a black pus that may be fungus-related,
while the patient notes he’s unhappy there. Brennan goes to House to resign but House convinces
him not to. Mr. X’s blood continues to coagulate and they immerse him in hot water and go back
to differential. House calls to get an accurate history and talks to Cole and Thirteen, who are
breaking into the impound lot where Mr. X’s car is held. While they drug the guard dogs, House
sends the others out. . . all ignoring Foreman except Taub, who notes that Cuddy will give in first.
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Foreman talks to Cameron who notes that he’s always been happy working with House no
matter how much he objects. Meanwhile, Mr. X mirrors Kutner’s desires for thrills, and Wilson
goes to Cuddy who is planning to get revenge on House with the use of a laxative substituted for
his Vicodin. Wilson suggests she make House think he’s won, but it’s too late as House emerges
from the restroom. Kutner warns that Mr. X’s rash is back and the hot water is working, but
House has to head back to the restroom and spars with Foreman. House then decides to induce
a fever to keep the symptoms in check, and Cuddy agrees. House is suspicious of how easily
she gave in and warns that he isn’t giving in. . . and she might want to keep an eye on her birth
control pills.
Foreman gives Mr. X a fever but he has a heart attack and they get him out of the tub. They
dry him off barely in time as Kutner administers defib and shocks himself unconscious. House is
interested in why Kutner is interested in suffering pain, and Foreman suggests they do a biopsy
on his heart. When they point out it won’t work, Foreman suggests they biopsy his toe. House
draws him off to the side to tell him he’s found Foreman a job since nobody’s going to back down.
Foreman turns down the offer and seems happy at the thought of staying.
Cole and Thirteen have found Mr. X’s car and have a name, Robert Elliott, but they don’t
have enough time to track down his history. House wants to know why Thirteen volunteered and
suggests she didn’t want to have Mr. X mirror her. He gets Foreman out of the room and has
Thirteen meet with the patient. Robert says she’s incredibly hot, mirroring House. House steps
outside while Thirteen runs the test and Robert admits he’s scared. She comes out and House
wants to know how he reacted. House agrees with Kutner’s suggestion to immerse him in hot
water again, but then picks up on the fact that Kutner doesn’t like hot tubs. House realizes that
Robert reacted on his own to the hot water.
House then goes into the room dressed in Robert’s clothing and claims to be him, and Robert
responds to him. House then goes over the restaurants he’s visited and the fact he has a tube
of vaporub. Robert puts it under his nostrils and says it covers the smell of dung. House tells
the others that Robert sells farm equipment and got an infection from pig manure. Foreman
suggests they wait 15 minutes and have Cuddy and House meet with Robert at the same time
to see which one is the dominant personality. Robert tells both of them to shut up. . . then starts
mirroring House.
House meets with all of the applicants and declares it a tie, firing none of them. Foreman
notices it was nice of House and Chase won all the money. It turns out House split the money
with Chase and bribes Foreman with letting him stay so he doesn’t reveal what was going on.
House then notes that everyone reacted to Robert but no one changed. . . except Foreman.
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Whatever It Takes
Season 4
Episode Number: 76
Season Episode: 6
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Thomas L. Moran, Peter Blake
Juan J. Campanella
House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Taub),
Kal Penn (Kutner), Andy Comeau (Brennan), Edi Gathegi (Cole), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Tom Wilson (Lou), Amy Dudgeon (Casey), Michael Michele (Dr. Samira
Teriz), Holmes Osborne (Curtis), Joel Bissonnette (John), Chad Willett
(Brian Smith), Nick Warnock (Reporter)
HOU-406
Based on practically no information and no medical history about a
mystery patient sent by the CIA, House is using some unorthodox
methods to diagnose and treat him. Meanwhile the remaining candidates are questioning Foreman’s judgment.
At a drag race track, a female driver, Casey, starts her engines and heads down the strip.
Things start to slow down in her vision and hearing and she lets go of the accelerator but still
wins the race. When she’s talking to the interviewer afterward, everything starts to slow down
again and she collapses.
House is meeting with the fellowship applicants to determine the case for today, but he already has one chosen, Casey the driver. Foreman believes it’s heat stroke but they’re interrupted
when a suited man comes in and identifies himself as a CIA agent. He asks House to accompany him to help with a patient who is the victim of an assassination attempt. House agrees
and leaves Foreman to supervise Casey’s treatment. Foreman insists that she’s suffering from
heatstroke. . . until she has a seizure, confirming Miller- Fisher. Casey doesn’t believe him when
he orders treatment and wants to see House, but she gets a fever and passes out, which isn’t a
symptom of Miller-Fisher.
House meets with the attending CIA physician, Samira Terzi, as well as another physician
from the Mayo, Dr. Curtis, who has also been brought in. They go to see the mystery patient,
”John,” who is covered in radiation burns. Curtis notes from the report that John ate a lot of
chestnuts but House’s dismisses it.
Foreman and the fellowship try to come to a diagnosis with House incommunicado, and they
want to run tests. Foreman gives them three hours to come up with something.
Dr. Curtis doesn’t have much luck with a diagnosis and Terzi can’t tell them where John was
operating out of. She finally tells them he was in Bolivia for eleven months. House figures he has
pancreatitis from a fungal infection brought on by alcohol consumption. Terzi goes with Curtis’
diagnosis of radiation poisoning while House still pushes for his alcoholism theory.
The fellowship run the tests and it appears to be either lupus or MS. Foreman orders the
treatment for MS, overriding Taub and Amber’s belief that it’s lupus. They go to Cameron for
support and she suggests they go behind Foreman’s back. They administer steroid treatment for
MS as well, but Casey’s legs go numb.
House is waiting for John to recover and reveals that he took the man off the treatment, but
John has gone into a coma.
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Foreman and the fellowship go back to differential but Foreman isn’t thrilled that they gave
her steroids, since now they don’t know what caused the paralysis. He’s even less thrilled that
they went to Cameron, and warns them that their tactics won’t work except for House. They
figure it’s botulism but then Brennan suggests its polio, recognizing the symptoms from his time
in Africa. Foreman tells him to leave and goes with the tests for botulism.
Curtis is dismayed with House’s actions but House notes that John still has his hair which
would fall out from radiation poisoning. Terzi goes with House’s diagnosis of blood cancer and
orders plasma treatment and chemotherapy
Foreman confronts Cameron then moves her patient without telling her. Chase is amused
with the whole thing and points out that she should stay out of House’s business and House’s
team.
Terzi suggests that they consult with an oncologist for John’s chemotherapy and House calls
up Wilson to get a consult. House then offers her a position on his staff but she knows about what
he’s been doing with his fellowship. Wilson proscribes the proper treatment once he confirms
House is telling the truth about being with the CIA.
Casey is getting worse and her pit boss Lou is leery of Foreman given his past screw ups.
Brennan interrupts to reveal that he tested Casey for polio and she showed positive. Meanwhile,
Wilson forgets the number to the CIA when Cuddy wants to know where House is, and Wilson
ends up with extra clinic time.
House goes to visit John, whose hair is falling out too quickly for the chemotherapy to account
for. House now believes someone is trying to kill John, but Curtis warns that it’s too late to
begin radiation treatment. House suggests that they try an experimental herbal treatment that
mitigates bone marrow damage from radiation. . . and it’s only been tested on monkeys.
Foreman admits he’s wrong and Brennan suggests they give her high doses of vitamin c
treatment. Foreman reluctantly agrees although he’s still leery.
House prepares the herbal treatment in tea and gives it to John, while Lou agrees to the
treatment for Casey. Meanwhile, John talks to House about having spent 40 days with a woman
in Bolivia who did the ”devil dance.” When House realizes that Carnival in Bolivia is only eight
days, and he goes back to Terzi and figures that John was in Brazil, not Bolivia. It’s a major
issue because they mistranslated ”chestnuts” as ”Brazil nuts,” and Brazil nuts have large doses
of selenium that cause all of John’s symptoms. The treatment is the same as chemotherapy so
it’s already underway.
They continue to give Casey treatment and it starts to work. House heads out, flirting with
Dr. Terzi all the way. Curtis is disgusted with House’s tactics but Terzi is impressed, even if she
doesn’t accept House’s job offer.
Cameron comes to see Foreman and admits she misses people doing whatever it takes to get
the job done, and she’s having trouble giving it up. She apologizes for messing with Foreman’s
patient but he admits he screwed up.
House returns to meet with the fellowship and they’re equally skeptical of each other’s stories. . . until Foreman reveals that Casey may have had a relapse but has tested negative for polio.
House realizes that Brennan poisoned her and faked the lab test to make it appear she had polio
so that researchers would pursue the cure of vitamin c for polio. House tells him to quit and
Brennan leaves. . . and then House has Foreman call the cops. House figures it was heatstroke
all along, and tells them they should have listened to Foreman the entire time.
House prepares to leave and Cuddy wants to know where he was. She insists he either confirm
the story or do eight hours of clinic time. He lies about treating a rich patient. . . and she forgives
him for his honesty. Then she realizes how unlikely that was and has him do his hours and
Wilson’s. House goes outside and finds Dr. Terzi waiting for him to take the job.
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Ugly
Season 4
Episode Number: 77
Season Episode: 7
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Sean Whitesell
David Straiton
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman),
Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Chase), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr.
Lisa Cuddy)
Michael Michele (Samira Terzi), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Anne
Dudek (Amber), Edi Gathegi (Cole), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Kal Penn
(Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Khleo Thomas (Kenny), Laurie Fortier (Darnell), Michael Whaley (Joe),
Adam Pilver (Cranio Surgeon), Michael Adler (E.R. Patient), David
Campbell (II) (Plastic Surgeon), David Um Nakase (Physician), Mandy
Schneider (Jenny), Troy Vincent (Father)
HOU-407
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting
him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager who suffers from a heart
attack prior to a serious plastic surgery.
A father arrives with his son Kenny, but a girl catches a glimpse of the boy and screams in
terror. The boy Kenny is facially deformed and he’s scheduled for a 10-hour procedure to fix his
disfigurement. A documentary team is following them as Kenny goes into surgery conducted by
Chase. As the surgery proceeds, Kenny has a heart attack as the documentary team looks on.
Cuddy agrees to let the documentary team film House as he checks out Kenny’s case, and
House reluctantly agrees. He then takes the fellows to the MRI room for a private meeting away
from the documentarian, but the fellows are more interested in why Dr. Terzi is now on staff,
and how that affects their own chances. They run a differential but House concludes he’s huffing
freon and orders a study to determine if there’s scarring of the heart. Once she’s alone with
House, Terzi wants to know if his offer is real and he reassures her it is. He then goes to Wilson
and wonders if Terzi is any good, and is reluctant to fire her. Wilson is surprised that House is
displaying something resembling guilt.
Kenny’s father is skeptical about the freon-huffing theory, while Kutner tries to reassure
Kenny while testing. There’s no signs of heart scarring but Kenny has noted he has headaches.
Meanwhile, Cuddy is trying to explain to the documentary team why House is ducking them.
House dismisses the fellows’ theory and orders them to have Kenny’s heart stopped. Taub prepares to stop Kenny’s heart to confirm House’s drug diagnosis while Cuddy gripes to House.
Kenny hedges on whether he did drugs and finally lies, badly, that he does. Taub calls off the
tests since it’s clear Kenny isn’t using drugs, but Kenny starts coughing up blood.
It’s back to differential while the documentary team tries to get it all on film, getting on the
way. Terzi tosses out a theory and House agrees, but Foreman is skeptical and House concedes
her theory isn’t good. Cole finally comes up with a theory relating to tumors for the intercranial
pressure and Taub disagrees, but keeps quiet since he figures House would undercut him on
film and ruin his chances for future employment.
The documentary team interview Wilson, who stumbles over House’s background issues until
House puts them back on the case. He then wonders out loud to Wilson about how Terzi is
making him stupid, but they’re interrupted when Kenny starts vomiting blood again. The bleeding
is worse and House concedes he was wrong. Nobody speaks up because of the camera crew until
Terzi comes up with a new theory. House finally lets them go ahead and test it.
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The documentary team goes after Cameron as she examines a patient, and Cameron defends House even though she left his team. She stammers through ”loving” being around House.
Meanwhile, Amber and Taub test Kenny and detect swelling but argue over House’s suggested
treatment for juvenile rheumatoid. Taub sticks by his treatment recommendation and goes to
Kenny’s father. He argues that House is wrong and the father should refuse House’s treatment
suggestion of steroids.
The father goes with Taub’s recommendation and House fires Taub for going behind his back,
but Cuddy tells him to stay until the case is resolved and the camera team is gone. The father
now trusts Taub, who starts testing. Meanwhile, House goes to Taub’s former boss who refuses
to explain why Taub quit and quickly realizes what House is up to when he tries to get the
information by claiming to want plastic surgery.
Taub believes his CT test proves positive but House still disagrees and reveals he spoke to
Taub’s wife. Taub admits he had an affair and had to resign when his partners found out. Cuddy
goes with House’s theory and orders his treatment. House talks to Kenny and his father, and
admits he isn’t concerned about making Kenny looking normal but just making sure he lives.
Kenny admits that he can’t have a normal relationship with anyone, including his father. House
points out the surgery won’t change who Kenny is.
Later, House and Wilson sneak into the room where the documentary team are set up and
review the tapes of the differential. House confirms that Terzi seems to have him befuddled, much
to Wilson’s amusement. Meanwhile, Cameron practices trying to qualify her ”love” statement
about House while Chase looks on.
Taub is giving over the tests again and tries to get House to confirm the lesion. House agrees
but Taub backs down. They give Kenny the news but House notices Kenny’s little finger is twitching and has to admit it’s a new symptom and he still doesn’t know what Kenny has.
It’s back to differential but Taub suggests that House doesn’t want Kenny cured because then
the boy won’t be ”normal” and House doesn’t want anyone to be normal. House ignores him but
Taub suggests they remove the pacing wire. House agrees but has Kutner ready with the defib
paddles. The father agrees and Taub removes the wire: Kenny is fine and they take him to remove
the cyst.
House isn’t convinced and keeps examining the facts while they begin the surgery. Thirteen
isn’t convinced and prepares to watch the surgery. She notices a discoloration around his hairline. Wilson confronts House about how he hires attractive women and dates the ones he fires.
Thirteen comes in and informs him that the discoloration indicates lyme disease hidden in his
hairline, where no one ever looked closely enough because of his face. They shave Kenny’s head
and confirm he has the disease.
House talks to the documentary team and dodges the question of his feelings about Cuddy
interfering with his team. He then goes to the fellows and confronts Taub, noting he signed a
non-compete with his former partners so they wouldn’t reveal his affair. House is impressed
Taub stood up to him even though it would have cost him any chance of work. He then confronts
Terzi and admits he’s treated her unfairly and then fires her and asks her for a date. She stalks
out without a word.
The documentary team ends up making House look like a warm caring being. He stalks off
while Cuddy watches the tape with Kenny thanking House for helping him.
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You Don’t Want to Know
Season 4
Episode Number: 78
Season Episode: 8
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Sara Hess
Lesli Linka Glatter
Chase), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Lisa Edelstein (Dr.
Lisa Cuddy)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen),
Edi Gathegi (Cole), Kal Penn (Kutner), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Adria Johnson (Nurse #2), Joe Ochman (Surgeon), Mandy McMillian
(Nurse #1), Noelle Drake (Ilana), Steve Valentine (Flynn)
HOU-408
House treats a magician but comes to believe he’s faking illness to
cover up his own incompetence. Meanwhile, House pits the fellows
against each other in his version of an immunity challenge.
Magician Flynn is performing as Kutner and Cole watch from the audience. Kutner eagerly
volunteers but Cole gets chosen. Flynn has Cole check his water tank illusion and is then lowered
upside-down into the water. Flynn starts bleeding from the mouth and passes out, and Cole and
Kutner quickly get him out.
Kutner is concerned about Flynn but House believes that Flynn screwed the trick up and
claimed to have a heart attack. House is more interested in presenting the fellows with a challenge: the winner gets immunity and gets to pick two of the others, and House will fire one. House
then reveals the challenge: they have to bring him Cuddy’s thong.
Kutner is more interested in finding out what’s wrong with Flynn, and House says he’ll fire
him if there’s nothing wrong. Kutner’s initial tests prove negative, while Amber and Taub both
scheme to get Cuddy’s thong. . . and stop each other. Foreman reluctantly helps Kutner, but when
he puts Flynn into the MRI chamber, he suffers from internal bleeding. Kutner is satisfied his
theory has proven out and they give him a transfusion. Taub and Amber try passing off Amber’s
thong as Cuddy’s, but House doesn’t buy it. Instead, he takes Kutner with him to the operating
room where Flynn is in surgery. House finds a key in his intestines, they key for the escape, and
the MRI magnet pulled it through his intestines.
House confronts Flynn and claims he’s a hack magician, but Flynn insists he didn’t screw
up the trick, and does a card trick to convince House he knows what he’s doing. However, he
starts bleeding again and House seriously takes the matter under consideration. House puts the
thong contest on hold but Cole reveals he’s apparently succeeded. House sends them to run
tests and looks for drugs at Flynn’s house, but asks to see Thirteen in his office. He noticed her
acting clumsy earlier then overreacting and wants to know why. He thinks she’s hiding a medical
condition but Thirteen denies it.
Taub and Kutner search Flynn’s house and finds rabbits, which suggests tularemia, while
House asks Flynn how he did the trick. When he refuses, House cuts off his oxygen tube as a
magic trick and Flynn responds by pick pocketing his Vicodin. House displays a little diagnostic
magic of his own and insists Flynn has caught tularemia from his rabbits. Out in the hall, he
drops his bottle to get Cuddy to bend over, confirming she isn’t wearing a thong. Cole refuses
to tell how he did it, much to House’s irritation, while Flynn passes out during testing due to
bleeding near the heart. They suspect cancer and House tell them to test while watching Thirteen.
Cole prepares to test him but Flynn says that he will die within 24 hours. Amber tries to negotiate
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with Cole for immunity but he’s more interested in the scan and spots more bleeding in Flynn’s
kidney and thigh.
Back in differential, Kutner suggests tainted blood but Foreman comes up with is amyloidosis
while Flynn has another seizure. Kutner is more interested in trying to get Cole to give him
immunity, and Flynn has another seizure as his kidneys shutdown. Meanwhile, House is playing
foosball with Wilson, who is wondering what House is up to with his thong stealing. Kutner
believe the kidney shutdown indicates tainted blood, but House says Flynn needs bone marrow
treatment to counter the amyloidosis. However, it could lower his immune system and kill him if
he has an infection, so House gives them two hours to test. Taub tries to bribe Cole with $5,000
while House orders them to test for amyloidosis. Foreman vetoes him so House suspects the
blood was tainted and offers to receive some.
Thirteen gives him a transfusion and House has figured out her mother died after a long
bout with Huntington’s Chorea. Thirteen believes she has the same thing but House reveals he
substituted regular coffee for her decaf to give her the tremors. He wonders why she didn’t get a
test but she notices he has a fever.
The fellows want to test House since they can’t do a biopsy on Flynn, but House insists he
isn’t sick. He starts to pass out and realizes his coffee was spiked, and the fellows do the biopsy
on him. When House wakes up he figures out that Thirteen drugged him, and steals a sample of
her saliva from her water bottle. The biopsy results prove negative so Foreman orders irradiation
treatment and Wilson questions House’s motive while discussing blood types. House realizes
something is up and goes to confront Flynn and tries to get him to explain the trick. House
determines he has Type A blood and explains to the fellows that he’s reacting to the wrong blood
type. They tested his blood only for antibodies, not type, and Flynn’s body is making Type B
antibodies, which made him Type AB. The disease that causes Type B antibodies: lupus. They
flush his system and give him Type A blood and he’s fine.
Finally they get to the immunity ceremony and Cole selects Kutner and Amber. House is
surprised that he picked Kutner until he figures that Cuddy made a deal so Cole would pick who
she wanted and eliminate a liability. House fires Cole for supporting cuddy rather than subverting
her. He then gets back the test results from Thirteen for Huntington’s, but she’d doesn’t want to
know and would rather have hope. She figures that House keeps asking questions so he always
has hope.
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Games
Season 4
Episode Number: 79
Season Episode: 9
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Eli Attie
Deran Sarafian
Chase), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Anne Dudek (Amber), Kal Penn (Kutner),
Peter Jacobson (Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Jeremy Renner (Quidd), Matt DeCaro (McKenna), Nick McCallum
(Fred), Eli Bildner (Chris), Alex Weed (Ian), Boris Kievsky (Club Owner),
Raf Mauro (Doctor), Darren S. Kim (Parent #1), Dina Defterios (Luisa
Maria), Tanika Brown McKelvy (Parent #2), Kes Reed Miller (Kid #1),
Olivia Everhard (Kid #2), Spencer Bridges (Kid #3)
HOU-409
Under Cuddy’s pressure to choose his team, House gives the candidates a case of a former punk rock star who is a drug user. Whoever
diagnoses the patient is going to have a future as a member of House’s
team.
A punk rocker, Ian, is hanging out in an alley with his band and grabs his friend’s new
guitar. . . and wrecks it. The guy hits him with it but they’re called in to the club. The rest of the
band goes in, but Ian starts coughing up blood and then collapses.
House is watching his soap opera when Cuddy comes in and demands an answer on which
two fellows House is selecting for his team. When he refuses to choose, she threatens to make
him pay for them. . . and take away his parking spot. House tries to find a patient with Cameron
and ends up seizing on Ian, who has all the symptoms of a drug addict. House suspects some
underlying disease and brings it to the fellows. He also notes the fellow who solves the case will
be hired, and he’ll use arbitrary points to decide the second selection. The fellows immediately
start coming up with differentials but Foreman notes that Ian will only withstand one test at a
time. House goes with Amber’s differential and orders her to test.
House visits with Wilson who reveals he misdiagnosed a patient, Mr. McKenna, who as it
turns out doesn’t have cancer. Ian goes into the bathroom to take Amber’s test while she waits
outside, and Thirteen notes that he’ll probably smoke in private. . . and has an oxygen tank.
They’re interrupted by an explosion.
Wilson explains to McKenna that he doesn’t have cancer, while House sits in. McKenna reveals
that he’s sold his house and spent all of his remaining $6,000 on one last trip.
House meets with the fellows while hiding from Foreman, who still insists Ian is simply suffering from drug addiction. Thirteen lashes into Amber who wants a new series of tests. Chase finds
Foreman, who is staying close to the patient to try and find the team. When Ian starts thrashing
about, Foreman goes in and reveals Ian has covered himself with nicotine patches. Taub notices
blood clots in Ian’s fingertips, proving Amber wrong.
It’s back to differential and Thirteen suggests malaria. House goes with her theory but notes
that she isn’t happy with Ian and his drug addiction and tries to pin her down. Thirteen admits
she wants to win and be happy, but House figures she isn’t happy that Ian is happy despite his
condition. Meanwhile, Taub is picking up Vicodin for House and admits to Thirteen that he isn’t
interested in Ian, but just in winning. They arrive at Ian’s room and discover that he’s gone.
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House is in Wilson’s office listening to Ian’s old record, and notes that Wilson has a blank
liability form and his checkbook ready. It turns out that a guilty Wilson is going to pay McKenna
the money he spent. Taub and Thirteen come in to reveal they lost the patient, so House sends
Taub to find Ian while wanting to know why Thirteen is trying to help Ian. He still doesn’t believe
her explanation that she just wants to help people.
Taub and Thirteen track Ian down to Pediatrics where he’s entertaining the children. . . and
then collapses. Cuddy goes to confront House and he asks her advice, much to her surprise. She
recommends Taub and Kutner, and the fellows report he doesn’t have malaria but does have bad
blood fragments. House talks to Ian’s bandmates and figures out Ian has been sharing needles–
and blood–with one of his friends, explaining the blood fragments. Ian falls out of his bed with
respiratory failure.
It’s back to differential and House now goes with Kutner’s diagnosis, but Amber calls him on
it that he simply wants an excuse to run tests so he can come up with a real diagnosis. House is
impressed, then confronts Ian and wants to know why he doesn’t try at anything, and Ian admits
most people shrug and disregard him. House finds some unusual lumps near Ian’s heart but Ian
seems more intent on House liking his music then trying to save him.
Wilson tries to pay off McKenna who rips up the check and insists that Wilson owes him much
more, and plans on suing him for giving him happiness and taking it away.
House meets with Kutner and Taub for differential and Taub suggests a MRA to see if a
blood vessel wrapped around his trachea. However, he’s not sure how to hold Ian still so they
go to Chase. . . and House asks him who he should hire. Taub manages to convince Chase to
do surgery so they can see Ian’s heart directly. . . by blackmailing him into doing it, noting if he
refuses it’ll look like he’s trying to get revenge on House for firing him. Chase recommends House
hire Taub and Amber, then goes ahead with the surgery but Ian goes into respiratory shutdown.
It’s back to differential but Foreman thinks that House is still more interested in the game
then finding a cure. House fires Kutner and Thirteen, who start tossing out theories and end
up with a contaminated drug theory and possible heavy metal poisoning. House’s attempt to
provoke them is successful and he withdraws the firings. Amber tends to Ian who thinks she’s
unhappy and refuses to give up his dealer’s name.
Wilson goes to see House, who is listening to Ian’s music, and House tries to get Wilson to
stand up for himself against McKenna. Wilson thinks House is trying to control everything and
is trying to avoid pain. Kutner comes in and reveals that Ian works with abandoned kids. House
finally fires all the fellows. . . then has an idea. He goes to Cuddy to ask for a brain biopsy and
notes that all four fellows’ theories contributed to the solution, even though they were wrong. Ian
was exposed to measles and his immune system was destroyed by drugs. The virus is in Ian’s
brain but Cuddy needs neurological symptoms before she orders the biopsy. Amber notes Ian
swallows constantly and Cuddy authorizes the treatment if they can stimulate a seizure. House
uses Ian’s music to set off a seizure and they go ahead with steroid treatment.
Later in the lecture hall, House meets with the fellows. He starts with Amber, noting she has
to be willing to lose sometimes. He then fires Thirteen, noting he’d keep her if he had a third slot.
That leaves him with Taub and Kutner.
Amber goes to see Ian, and admits she’s trying not to care. Ian admits it’s not easy.
Cuddy talks to House and says she recommended Kutner and Taub thinking he wouldn’t hire
them, and he needs to hire a woman. She tells him to hire Thirteen as well. . . and then realizes
that’s what he wanted all along.
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It’s A Wonderful Lie
Season 4
Episode Number: 80
Season Episode: 10
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Pamela Davis
Matt Shakman
Cameron), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Kal Penn (Kutner), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Janel Moloney (Maggie), Liana Liberato (Jane), Cheyenne Wilbur (Minister), Scotty Maguire (Bystander), Jennifer Hall (Melanie), Anthony
Starke (Roger)
HOU-410
A mother’s sudden paralysis during a indoor rock-climbing incident
leaves her daughter injured, and House’s new team looking for a cure.
Meanwhile, House organizes his new recruits’ Secret Santa gift exchange. . . with a few twists of his own.
It’s the holiday season and at a rock wall-climbing, a daughter Jane is ascending the wall as
her mother Maggie encourages her. She slips and hangs, but Maggie’s hands are paralyzed and
she loses her grip on the safety line, causing Jane to fall and break her arm.
House’s new team go over Maggie’s case but House is less then thrilled that Kutner has put
up Christmas decorations. Maggie has had breast surgery and Taub suspects they didn’t get all
of the cancerous cells. House suspects Maggie is a liar, but her record shows that she doesn’t
lie to people. He then talks to Jane, who confirms that her mother tells her everything and they
don’t lie to each other. House is shocked, believing everyone lies, and sends Taub and Foreman
to talk to her last sexual partner, Roger. They trick him into revealing he gave her E to relax.
House sees a woman with a throat problem, Melanie, and talks about St. Nicolas while determining she has strep. He determines she’s a prostitute but she comes on to him. Taub reports in
to let them know they’re testing the drug and Maggie’s blood. However, she goes blind as Kutner
runs drug tests.
On Cuddy’s orders, House prepares the Secret Santa and amuses himself by watching their
reactions. The E tests proves negative so he sends thirteen and Kutner to break into Maggie’s
house and computer, while Taub and Foreman run more tests to check for vascular problems
suggesting angiogram and talk to her about her honesty. Wilson wonders why House is doing the
Secret Santa and he explains about his theory on gift-giving pissing people off.
Kutner and Thirteen return, with Thirteen eager to prove House wrong. House goes over their
computer while Foreman suggests she might have psych problems leading to a lack of inhibitions
and excessive honesty. House wonders why Thirteen is protecting Maggie, figuring she’s still lying
about her own personal problems that House hasn’t identified. They then go to Jane to convince
her to lie to her mother about a placebo treatment they’re giving her. Jane admits she knows
how to lie. . . but won’t lie to her mother. Taub prepares the ”treatment” and they keep Jane away
from her. The team figures out that House gave them all his name, while Taub monitors Maggie
whose lymph nodes expand and cut off her airway.
They open up her airways with alcohol and conclude it isn’t psychological, while Kutner notices House has a present on his desk. He concludes Maggie has sarcoidosis when he notices
she sold her Stairmaster and canceled a hiking trip, going through her e-mails. House opens his
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present, a Blackberry. The team wonders who got House a present. . . while House returns it to
Wilson, who he stole it from. Maggie tests negative for sarcoidosis but she starts bleeding out of
the eyes. It’s back to differential as they determine her platelets are breaking down. Kutner then
notes that House is his Secret Santa and wonders who got House the present. . . and gives House
a present as well.
Melanie comes back to visit House and reveals she has a rash on her neck. He determines
she does a ”donkey show” and gives her a prescription, and she offers him a ticket to her show.
Meanwhile, Chase and Foreman prepare to drill into Maggie’s skull but discover that the bone is
harder then the drill. The team thinks Kutner ruined the test, but he defends himself. They run
blood tests for the only thing that causes hardening of the skeleton that is curable: if it’s positive,
she’ll need a bone marrow transplant. They prepare to test Jane for a match, although Maggie
objects due to the risk and insists they find someone else to take the risk. Later, Taub reports
to House they found a donor and gives House a present, but thirteen reports the test proved
negative so no donor is necessary. She then gives House his present from her, then refuses to
get mad at Kutner to irritate House. Jane comes in and insists they test her morrow.
House talks to Maggie and tells her to give Jane one last present: the truth. House figures
Maggie refused to do the donor test because Jane isn’t really her mother. Maggie finally admits
to House she adopted Jane from a drug addict and promised never to say. However, when Jane
comes in she finally refuses to tell her adopted daughter the truth. . . and Jane tells her the truth,
that she’s dying.
House goes out past the hospital party but runs into Wilson and admits he was impressed
with the truth telling. Getting an idea, House meets with his team while he carols, and tells them
to give Maggie an anti-psychotic. House explains that a bit of her breast cancer detached and got
into her bloodstream, and the anti-psychotic will cause it to swell. He finds the swelling on the
back of her knee: they can cut out the tumor and put her on chemo to cure her.
Later everyone gathers for the staff party. . . except House, who walks out, alone. He then
goes to church where Melanie is performing as the prostitute Mary in a nativity scene, riding a
donkey.
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Frozen
Season 4
Episode Number: 81
Season Episode: 11
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Sunday February 3, 2008 on FOX
Liz Friedman
David Straiton
House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Kal Penn (Kutner), Olivia
Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Mira Sorvino (Dr. Cate Milton), Jeffrey Hephner (Seth)
HOU-411
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a
researcher at a South Pole base is taken ill.
Seth, a research technician at the Antarctic, is working on the wind generators when a blade
comes loose and cut his leg. His associate, psychiatrist Cate Milton, renders emergency first aid
and manages to stop the bleeding. . . but then collapses, vomiting and in pain.
Cuddy finds House trying to get cable in a patient’s room, and tells him that they’re now
charging patients for cable as a budget- cutting measure. She informs him that he’s been assigned to Milton’s case and he’s intrigued by the fact she’s trapped at the South Pole. There’s
no way to evacuate her or fly anything in or out. Kuttner suggests a struvite kidney stone, and
Taub notes lots of sex could lead to a struvite kidney stone. The medical supplies at the base are
limited but Kuttner suggests they use a geological sonic device to break apart the stone.
House goes to Cameron who is on the budget committee and threatens to start destroying
medical supplies until she convinces them to give him cable. They prepare to have Cate test the
sonic device on an egg but House sends the newbies to check up Cameron and find a mistake
so he can blackmail her into giving him cable. They take off and House and Foreman watch as
the egg blows up. Cate disputes House’s theories and stands up to him, impressing House. They
have her test for kidney failure while the newbies go to Cameron and tell her that House is having
them spy on her, so she might as well give in now.
They confirm Cate’s kidney is declining but she refuses to accept House’s interpretation and
insists on doing another test in an hour. House realizes she’s not taking the medication, and
Cate insists they have only a limited supply of medication that she doesn’t want to waste. She
starts to go into heavy breathing and they realize that her lung is collapsing. They direct her to
puncture her lung with a syringe and reinflate it, but it also proves it isn’t a kidney stone. House
does differential with Cate and Foreman suspects cancer and discusses it privately with House.
House goes ahead and tells her anyway, saying it’s probably in her abdomen but they have no
way to stain or analyze it. They have her start with x-rays while House expresses his disgust
with her caring ways to Wilson, who figures House doesn’t like her because she’s a psychiatrist.
Wilson warns that they can’t do a biopsy but House suggests she use whatever she can to do
the stain. House notices Wilson wearing a lavender shirt and agreeing with him, and figure he’s
happy because he’s with someone.
House goes home to watch Cate do the exam to find possible nodes. She asks to see his house
before she strips and when he does so she starts to psychoanalyze him, noting his lack of photos
and fiction books. Meanwhile, Wilson and Foreman try to come up with a workable stain and
Wilson figures Cate is the perfect woman for House: she’s traveled to the ends of the Earth and
has a mysterious disease.
Cate strips down to her socks, insisting it’s too cold to remove them. She then starts inspecting
for hardened lymph nodes while House puts on Marvin Gaye and makes suggestive comments.
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He spots a hardened node in her abdomen and figure that’s the target for a biopsy. She numbs
the site with ice and under Wilson’s direction, injects a syringe in to take a sample. Wilson is
surprised that House uses her name and asks her okay, something he never does with a patient.
Wilson figures House was intimate with her somehow and notices House is following him out
to lunch. House figures Wilson is going to see his new girlfriend and Wilson is forced to make
a run for it. Cameron asks House to call off his newbies because they’re spying on her and
disrupting her work. She resigns from the budget committee so she has no influence, but smirks
as she walks away. House the newbies to step it up by giving them posters with Cameron’s
number advertising puppies, and saying to call between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. House figures if
she resigned, she can unresign. The newbies reluctantly go along with House’s plan to sabotage
Cameron so he can blackmail her, and he tells them not to tell Cameron what they’re doing.
Wilson talks Cate through staining the sample and she reveals she’s been checking up on
Wilson and discovered he’s perfect. She wonders how he House’s best friend and suspects Wilson
isn’t as nice as he seems. Wilson concludes she doesn’t have cancer, but then Cate’s other kidney
on the left side starts to shut down.
Back at home, House is working pants free and video-conferencing with Cate, telling her the
diagnosis is now auto-immune, and needs prednisone for treatment. Cate refuses to use up the
limited medication and insists on proof that it’s auto-immune. Foreman suggests they send her
outside since extreme cold has been used as a treatment to auto-immune. House isn’t thrilled
at Cate freezing to death, and Foreman wonders if he cares about Cate. House tries to come up
with a way to discover if she has auto-immune, and Wilson suggest using a paperclip. She puts
it in a tube with some of her blood, damaging the cells, and the disease will gorge itself on them.
Cate notes that House keeps hanging out with Wilson to get the same advice she’s giving him,
and notes that he’s been hanging out with her more then his other patients.
Cuddy asks House about Cate and then says she had to fire Cameron for screwing up. House
readily gives in without protesting and then tells the concerned Foreman that Cuddy is lying
and is working with the newbies to convince House he’s wrong about cable. They call Cate who
reports the test is negative and refuses to take the prednisone, but Foreman tries to sell his
freezing diagnosis. Cate prepares to go outside but collapses.
They have the base staff give her prednisone but she’s still in a coma. House is still trying to
figure out who Wilson’s girlfriend is, concluding it’s someone he knows. House comes up with
another diagnosis technique: technician Sean must test her urine to determine how strong it
is. When Sean goes along, House figures he’s in love with Cate. He then goes to the newbies
and accuses them of getting Cameron fired. They admit Cameron wasn’t fired but House already
knows that. They try to figure out what he wants them to say, until Thirteen snaps and refuses
to play House’s game. He notes that’s the right answer, and they should have said it two days
ago instead of playing games with her. When Kuttner refuses to pay for his cable, House points
out that’s not what he wants to them to stand up to him on.
Sean drinks the urine and says it’s watery, which indicates brain damage. They either have
to drill a hole in Cate’s skull to relieve the pressure, or it’s something else they can’t do anything
for. Relieving the pressure will give them more time and House appeals to the reluctant Sean’s
love to do the operation. House all but begs Sean to do it... then notes to Foreman how easy it
was to lie.
Sean proceeds with the drill and starts relieving the pressure. Cate comes out of her coma.
It’s back to differential where Taub and Kuttner suggest it’s some kind of fat build up from an
emboli, and Kuttner stands up for his differential. House realizes it would take an untreated
bone break to cause the fat emboli, and figures which part of Cate’s body he hasn’t seen. He has
her remove her socks and reveals. . . a broken toe, numbered by the cold. Sean treats the break
and Cate should be back to normal. House signs off as Cate and Sean embrace.
Later, House goes to the restaurant where Wilson is meeting with his girlfriend. House still
hasn’t figured it out. Wilson accuses House of caring about Cate but House denies it. . . and
Amber (aka ”Cutthroat Bitch”) arrives for dinner with Wilson.
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Don’t Ever Change
Season 4
Episode Number: 82
Season Episode: 12
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Leonard Dick, Doris Egan
Deran Sarafian
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Anne Dudek (Amber), Peter Jacobson
(Taub), Kal Penn (Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Laura Silverman (Roz), Kirsty Pape (Female Guest #2), Eyal Podell
(Yonatan), Heather Joy Sher (Female Guest #2), Faye DeWitt (Mrs. Silver), Yossi Mintz (Rabbi), Yanky Lunger (Cantor), Brent Katz (Uncle
Moishe)
House and his team must diagnose a Jewish bride who is taken ill at
her wedding. However, House is more interested in analyzing Wilson’s
relationship with his new girlfriend.
At a Hasidic Jewish wedding, Roz and Yonatan are united in matrimony. At the reception
afterward, as bride and groom are lifted up on chairs, Roz collapses and starts bleeding from her
bladder.
House greets Wilson as he arrives for work and Wilson admits they’ve been together for two
months. Wilson finally gives in and tells House to check out Amber himself.
House and his team take on Roz’s case while discussing Amber and Wilson, and Kutner
admits he knew. House suspects she poisoned herself and sends Foreman and Taub to check
her house. Taub is Jewish but skeptical of the Hasidic lifestyle. They notice that Roz cut a few
records and talk to her, and she reveals she turned Hasidic six months ago. Before that she took
heroin but she has been clean for months, and Yonatan knows and accepted. They take a hair
sample to test for latent toxins.
House gets into Amber’s house using a stolen key from Wilson and is waiting for her when she
gets home He isn’t sure why she’s dating Wilson and tosses out several theories, including trying
to get her job back and getting revenge. Amber neither admits nor denies and House leaves.
The drug tests are negative but House suspects that her newfound religion is a symptom of
porphyria. House insists that people don’t change and proscribes treatment for the rare genetic
disorder. Yonatan and Roz are skeptical and Kutner is forced to explain how House came up
with his diagnosis. Yonatan goes to Cuddy and demands a new doctor, and she points out the
symptoms also indicate cyroglobulinemia fits some of the symptoms. Cuddy starts to prescribe
treatment but Roz goes into respiratory distress.
It’s back to differential with the breathing problem ruling out porphyria, and Thirteen doesn’t
believe the new religious is a mental symptom. House suspects it’s lupus and has them give a
stress test. He then catches up to Wilson and Amber at a restaurant and Amber takes charge
to get their reservation settled. House realizes Wilson likes Amber taking charge and that he’s
sleeping with someone just like. . . House.
Taub administers the stress test and Yonatan wonders if treating the Lupus will undo the
mental change that led her to becoming Hasidic. Taub tries to reassure Yonatan he’ll find someone else, but Yonatan wonders why Taub doesn’t love his wife more then when they first got
married. The stress test proves negative but when Roz stands up she collapses with leg pain.
Foreman suspects a blood clot and House orders a MRI and fMRI. Thirteen and Foreman run
the MRI and he suspects she doesn’t want to be oversimplified and maintain the mystery about
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her. House proposes they restart her IV to determine if she’s a masochist when the pain hits,
based on the mental images. When Foreman touches her, her pleasure centers light up. However,
they determine she’s been praying which might explain the brain activity, and when they get her
up her BP and heart rate drop. As soon as they lay her down, she stabilizes. House gets her
up. . . and she crashes again.
Back in differential, Taub admits he can see why Roz would be attracted to the Hasidic
lifestyle. Kutner suggest an electrical problem in the heart, accounting for all the symptoms.
House spots Wilson and orders tests, then goes out to talk to his friend. Wilson admits House
is right and he’s looking for someone like House. House isn’t satisfied with that and says that
Amber is needy, which attracts Wilson. Wilson denies it and wonders why House keeps finding a
new argument every time Wilson agrees with him.
Taub and Kutner test Roz’s heart and Taub still thinks her change in lifestyle means something. Roz condemns them for gossiping and remembers Foreman’s earlier conversation with
Thirteen. They then prepare a sweat test.
House goes to Cuddy and suggests she sleep with Wilson to get him away from Amber. She’s
less then thrilled, and skeptical of House’s theory Wilson feels guilty, sleeps with women, ends
up betrayed, feels guilty, and repeats the cycle. Cuddy notes that House is afraid of losing Wilson
They administer the sweat test to Roz, while Yonatan insists seeing her bare is disrespectful. When Thirteen tries to console him, he feels she’s being condescending. As they raise the
temperature, Roz goes into hypothermia.
It’s back to differential with the new symptom, and they wonder if she has an infection. They
suspect something might be missing: cortisol, indicating Addison’s. They administer a cortisol
test. Meanwhile, Cuddy expresses her doubts to Wilson about Amber but he insists he’s happy.
She tells him the blunt truth: his needs will feed her needs and there’ll be nothing left of him.
Roz seems to feel better with the cortisol but Thirteen detects internal bleeding and Roz starts
saying a prayer for herself. They give her injections but Chase says they need to open her up to
find the bleeding. Even so, it will only keep her alive until they can cure her. Roz refuses, wanting
to share shabbat with her husband in eight hours, after sunset. Yonatan tries to convince her but
she standards by her Hasidic beliefs. House insists on Chase staying with them and they need
him. They’re left with nothing that fits the symptoms, but Chase suggests they convince her it’s
now sunset. They go ahead with the plan and Roz and Yonatan have their ceremony. Meanwhile,
House calls in Amber and offers her the fellowship if she can solve the case and drops Wilson.
She insists that with Wilson she has love and respect, and she won’t take the chance at the
fellowship. She does suggest D.I.C., but that doesn’t fit all the symptoms either. House is forced
to admit she’s changed.
The team runs another round of tests but they all prove negative. House insists that things
aren’t where they should be just because they want them to be. . . but then realizes something
isn’t where it should be. House goes out into the hall and intercepts Roz, and has them stand
her up. She starts to collapse. . . until he applies pressure to her kidney. As soon as he releases
the pressure, she crashes again. House has concluded that Roz has a floating kidney that was
dislodged during the marriage. Every time she stood the kidney dropped and caused the problems, and they did the scans while she was lying down so they didn’t come up with anything.
Surgery will correct the problem and Roz will be fine.
Later, House lets Wilson know he’s (more or less) okay with his girlfriend, but refuses to admit
that anyone has changed. Wilson is shocked that he might form a long-term connection with
someone other then House, but House might end up losing a friend. Wilson appreciates the
self-sacrifice, even though House denies it.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
Season 4
Episode Number: 83
Season Episode: 13
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Monday April 28, 2008 on FOX
David Hoselton, David Shore
Deran Sarafian
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa
Cuddy)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Dr.
Chris Taub), Kal Penn (Dr. Lawrence Kutner), Anne Dudek (Amber)
Chad Morgan (Deb), Paul Rae (Jeff), Chris Emerson (Young Man), Dina
Defterios (Luisa Maria), Marwan Ghazali (Delivery Man)
House copes with a patient whose symptoms conceal a greater problem, but spends much of his time dodging Cuddy’s orders to give performance reviews, and fighting with Amber over who gets to spend
more time with Wilson.
Nurses are on strike and hold up a delivery man for their allowed 15 seconds. He tries to
shove past them but Jeff, accompanying his wife Deb, convulses and collapses. They take him
to the hospital E.R., which is crowded due to the strike. House notices Jeff and is intrigued by
the fact that Jeff is unceasingly nice. He calls in the team to diagnose Jeff, but they’re skeptical
that anything is wrong, and suspect House is just trying to prove someone can’t possibly be so
happy.
With Wilson busy dating Amber, House invites Chase bowling but primarily gripes about
Wilson and Amber being together. Chase notes that Cameron had an insufferable friend and
they scheduled one night to be with her. House then goes to see Wilson and suggests he share
joint custody with Amber. Wilson notes this is (relatively) sane for House, and Amber works out
a schedule. However, Wilson refuses to arbitrate.
Foreman and Kutner go over Jeff’s house and debate if it’s possible for someone to be nice.
Kutner notes that House is the exception that proves the rule. Foreman notices hydrofluoric acid
among the cleaning supplies and takes a sample.
House and Amber go to Cuddy to arbitrate but she refuses to help out and starts reviewing
House’s performance. She refuses to give a ruling unless he reviews his team. The tests come
back negative but do show low calcium, so House visits Jeff and starts insulting his wife Deb.
Jeff remains nice and House concludes he has Williams’ Syndrome, a genetic illness that reduces
suspicion. Taub and Thirteen note that Jeff doesn’t meet any of the other conditions of Williams’
Syndrome, shooting a hole in House’s theory. However, Jeff suddenly has a stroke.
The team goes into differential, while House runs some very brief performance reviews. Foreman isn’t thrilled and eventually gives in to do it himself. House suspects neurosyphilis and
Kutner interviews Paul about his sexual history. He insists that his wife didn’t give it to him and
he’s never had it since he tested negative 10 years ago with the Peace Corps.
House is waiting for Amber and Wilson to arrive when a Watchtower representative stops by
his door promising happiness. House isn’t impressed. Amber drops off Wilson sixteen minutes
late, and House is even less impressed.
Thirteen comes in to see Foreman and proposes heart tests, but he insists on doing her
performance review. She’d rather do the tests. Kutner comes in to report the tests are positive
for neurosyphilis. Paul insists that it must be him and his test ten years ago must be faulty: he
refuses to believe Deb is the source and it must be his fault. She denies having an affair despite
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the fact there’s no other possibility, and notes she’ll never be as good as her husband. . . but tries
to be a better person. Kutner warns that as they treat Jeff for neurosyphilis, his attitude toward
her may change.
Foreman tries to conduct a performance review with Taub, who refuses to play along and
points out that House is simply messing with him by giving him the job. Kutner suspects something is wrong with House. House is out drinking with Wilson and getting him drunk when the
team calls with a new diagnosis after Jeff starts vomiting blood. They think he has hepatitis
caused by ethanol in his cleansers, or the penicillin they’re giving him for the neurosyphilis. He
tells them to run more tests and then explains to Wilson that he’s getting him drunk to mess up
his relationship with Amber. Wilson isn’t thrilled and goes back home.
As they run tests and determine Jeff also has hepatitis, Kutner tests House’s blood sample
and determines that he has syphilis and they go to see House. They tell him they know he has
it and House is furious. They provide him with medication and he has nothing else to say as
they leave. They explain to Cameron and Chase and conclude that the disease is the reason that
House is a jerk, and Chase wonders if Cameron slept with House. They also wonder if House
would be less of a doctor if he gets treatment. Cameron refuses to answer Chase’s question and
he figures she did.
Amber and Wilson meet with House and she objects to the fact House returned Wilson drunk.
She concludes House will just get worse until she stops him or stops seeing Wilson. She decides
to amend the agreement, adding penalty clauses, and House agrees. House was going to tell
Wilson about the syphilis but figures Wilson will tell Amber so doesn’t say anything.
Foreman goes to House and insists he formalize his relationship as the team’s boss. House
insists he wants to humiliate Foreman so that the team will question him, making them better
diagnosticians. Foreman isn’t buying it.
Deb goes to visit Jeff and he starts snarling at him and then has a heart attack. It’s back
to differential and House lets Kutner take the marker for the board. Taub suspects that the
penicillin is doing its job and causing Jeff’s rage. The others have different theories including
heart problems and ’roid rage. House let Foreman cast the deciding vote, but he suspects House
is setting him up. . . until House agrees with Foreman’s decision. The team is left to wonder if
House is better or worse since he didn’t participate in the diagnosis.
House goes to Wilson and makes him promise not to tell Amber, then tells him that the team
thinks he has syphilis. He slipped them an old blood sample and is faking treatment to fool the
team into thinking he’s nicer. The two of them go bowling to celebrate.
The team are running tests on Jeff and wondering if they should ease up on House’s treatments. However, Amber barges in and announces that Wilson told her House doesn’t have neurosyphilis. Kutner confronts House and reveals Amber told him. However, Kutner wonders if Jeff
might also have Chagas, which would test positive for neurosyphilis, and that he picked up during his Peace Corps tour in Costa Rica. When they gave him the penicillin, the Chagas flared up,
causing the heart attack. Kutner has confirmed his diagnosis with a new MRI.
They go to see Jeff and inform him that he has Chagas Disease, a parasite that caused brain
swelling that altered his personality for the last ten years. Deb doesn’t believe it and isn’t worried
that his feelings for her will change.
House goes to see Cuddy and turns in the signed performance reviews. However, she soon
figures out they’re all the same but admits it’s more then she expected. She also discovers he
wrote a performance review of her. House insists on reading the rest of the review, and asks her
to sign. In response, Amber has demanded that Cuddy deal with the fact that he violated the
agreement. He notes that Amber has too and Cuddy insists on implementing penalties on both
of them.
Jeff is having a meal with Deb when he notices that the ketchup tastes bad, and wonders
what else he doesn’t like. Deb is left to wonder.
House and Amber are left changing bed pans. . . together, while Wilson just smirks.
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Living the Dream
Season 4
Episode Number: 84
Season Episode: 14
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Monday May 5, 2008 on FOX
Sara Hess, Liz Friedman
David Straiton
Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Hugh Laurie (Dr.
Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr.
Lisa Cuddy)
Anne Dudek (Amber), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Peter Jacobson (Dr.
Chris Taub), Kal Penn (Dr. Lawrence Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Jason Lewis (Evan Greer), Kimberly Pfeffer (Anna), Joe Marinelli (Director), Robert Patrick Benedict (Dr. Jamie Conway), Brett Ryback
(Salesman), Dominic Flores (Pharmacist), Kristina Anapau (Marie Actress)
House treats a famous soap opera star when he believes the patient
has a serious condition even though there’s no evidence indicating
that’s the case. Meanwhile, Wilson and Amber have their first fight.
Actor Evan Greer is filming a scene for his soap opera as Dr. Brock Serling, and suddenly
collapses. It’s all part of the script but Evan insists the entire thing is garbage. Greer leaves in
his towncar but the driver takes him in the wrong direction. The driver then locks the car doors
and introduces himself as. . . Dr. Gregory House, who plans to save Evan’s life.
House arrives at the hospital where Cuddy is waiting with the accreditation on-site inspector.
She hastily denies knowing House, who notes Evan that he is having trouble reading his lines,
which makes House thinks he has a brain tumor. He convinces Evan to undergo a vision test.
Meanwhile, Cuddy asks the staff to make sure and behave for the inspector, and then asks
Chase, Foreman, and Cameron to watch House. Chase refuses and Foreman agrees to watch
House while Cameron finishes is paperwork.
House is testing Evan and claims he’s spotted something but Foreman comes in and realizes
the test is proving negative. Evan leaves and House goes out, where he runs into Wilson who
is having back troubles because he’s having trouble with Amber’s mattress. House warns that
Amber will turn it into a game that she will insist on winning. While talking, House and Wilson
end up in the elevator with Evan, and House drugs him and takes him to the MRI test chamber.
However, the MRI tests also prove negative for tumors as well. Evan storms off and House has
Taub and Thirteen try and convince him not to sue. However, when Evan gets to the lobby he
collapses due to a numb foot.
It’s into differential where Cameron suggests a series of tests while trying to finish House’s
paperwork. House doesn’t believe her tests will prove useful but Kutner goes ahead and does
them, while Evan says he’s rather do something inspiring. Meanwhile, House watches the soap
with the rest of the team on high-def TV to look for signs of illness. Cuddy comes in and talks to
House about behaving during the accreditation: he bargains for the high-def TV. Before Cuddy
can respond, Kutner reports the foot numbness is a real symptom but doesn’t show any toxins,
and House still believes it’s the result of a toxin and sends Kutner to check out Evan’s home
while he goes to Evan’s dressing room.
Wilson and Amber are buying mattresses and Amber tries to get the salesman to knock down
the price by lying that she’s pregnant and has been laid off. However, she relents and lets Wilson
pick whatever mattress he wants, hard or soft. Wilson calls House at Evan’s dressing room to
let him know Amber is letting him choose, but House thinks she’s manipulating him. House
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notices flowers, gin bottles, and sunflower seeds, but not toxins, then talks to Evan’s co-star,
who notes they dated once but he didn’t do anything. House concludes Evan is impotent based
on the sunflower seeds in his dressing room, and the sunflower seeds are the toxin, leaving B6
in his blood. They put him in the sleep lab and test him for sexual arousal: they confirm he isn’t
impotent but then Evan goes into cardiac arrest.
In differential, Cameron suggests hyperthyroidism and House now believes the thyroid is
responsible. Cameron keeps interjecting, and House suspects she wants to be back on the diagnostic team. Foreman finally agrees with House that they should nuke Evan’s thyroid, startling
everyone. However, once they’re outside, Foreman reveals to the rest of the team they’re going to
just do iodine uptake testing and by the time House finds out, they’ll know one way or another.
House is in the morgue having a snack when Cuddy finds him there, just ahead of the inspector, Conway. House figures Cuddy hastily hides the food and Conway ends up wondering
if they’re having an affair. Cuddy caves and House gets his HD TV and Cameron comes in to
announce the paperwork is done. House figures that she misses him and she thinks he hired
Thirteen because he couldn’t get her. She admits she misses the puzzles and the investigation,
and he offers to fire Thirteen or Kutner to get her back. However, she also admits she doesn’t
miss House.
During the iodine testing, Taub finds it hard to believe that Evan doesn’t find his work meaningless. However, they run the test and although Evan’s thyroid is normal, they discover the
iodine is spread throughout Evan’s body: his kidneys are failing. House isn’t thrilled they failed
to destroy the thyroid, despite the fact that doing so probably would have killed Evan. House
accuses Foreman of going behind his back to make sure they passed the inspection, but Taub
is more concerned about the patient, saying it could be auto immune. House counters by telling
the team to make sure that everything is within height compliance.
Wilson and Amber end up on their new mattress but Amber freezes up when she realizes he
bought the firm mattress. She’s upset that he got the mattress she wanted instead of the one he
wanted, and accuses him of resenting all of his ex-wives because he did what they wanted. She
notes she doesn’t need him to take care of her, and wants him to take care of himself.
House visits Evan who still wants to do something that matters. House notes that nothing
matters and tells him to quit if he’s unhappy. Evan says he can’t and wonders if House is afraid
of change. House figure Evan is afraid of failure so he won’t try, and Evan says he’ll use his
second chance to set things right. However, Evan then starts deliriously reciting lines from the
last season of his soap opera. His temperature goes up and House calls in cooling blankets as
Evan asserts he’s his soap opera character.
Now that Evan is septic with an infection and in a coma, they need to target the specific cause.
Foreman suspects a fungus or parasite but House goes to relax on a mattress and help Wilson
shop for his new bed. Wilson announces he’s wanted a waterbed all his life but then tries to back
out of it. House is more interested in the flower design on the beds and takes off.
House meets with the team and announces Evan has an allergy. The fungus and parasite
tests have proven negative and House notes there were chrysanthemums in Evan’s dressing
room, which are a known allergen. House decides to administer steroids, despite the fact it will
kill Evan if it’s an infection. When the hospital pharmacist is reluctant to hand out a massive dose
of steroids, House barges in and takes the steroids, then goes to Evan’s room. Cuddy intervenes
and insists that House wait for the blood tests. She finally admits her job and House’s are on the
line, and he tells her to call security in three minutes, covering her and letting Evan live. Cuddy
backs down and lets House administer the steroids.
As the staff wait, Cuddy reports that the tests prove negative for floral allergies and goes to
reorder the antibiotic treatments. However, when she gets to Evan’s room she finds out that Evan
is recovering: it was an allergy after all. House notes that he was wrong and they should have
stopped him. Conway confronts Cuddy, noting that House was wrong and he broke the rules.
Amber wakes up and discovers Wilson is sleeping on the floor in the next room: he hates the
water bed and can’t sleep on it. Amber assures him they’ll take it back.
House is watching his soap opera again and notices Evan drinking on set. He calls Cuddy,
who reveals they got a $200,000 fine. House says that there was quinine in the water: he spotted
bubbles in the liquid and Evan is allergic to quinine. Brock was drinking gin and tonics, and
while the gin was fake, the tonic had quinine in it. Cuddy insists on taking back the TV and
wishes him good night.
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House’s Head (1)
Season 4
Episode Number: 85
Season Episode: 15
Originally aired:
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Doris Egan, Peter Blake, David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory
House), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Kal Penn (Dr. Lawrence Kutner),
Anne Dudek (Amber), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom
(Nurse)
Fred Durst (Bartender), Sharmila Devar (Nurse), Isaac Bright (Goth
Kid), Jennifer Lee Wiggins (Stripper), Rebecca Rhae Larsen (Bohemian
Girl), Boogie (Dreadlocks), Henry Hayashi (Kaneshiro/Bus Driver),
Julie Ariola (Nurse Dickerson), Ivana Milicevic (Woman in Black)
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial
amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a lifethreatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they
had.
House finds himself in a strip bar, with no memory of the last four hours. The stripper assures
him he just came in and isn’t drunk, and notices he’s bleeding from a head injury. He has vague
memories of someone injured. He goes outside, staggering because of his missing cane, and sees
a major bus accident that he was in.
House is at the hospital getting treatment for his concussion along with the other bus passengers, and insists that he saw someone with symptoms, and they are in danger. He first suspects
the driver had leukemia, and then a seizure that caused the accident, but the driver is okay.
House then prescribes a fake case of meningitis to get the place quarantined. However, House
tries to retrace his steps without luck and his team heads back to the ER until he can remember. Before they do, Kutner suggests hypnosis and Chase has the training. Chase takes House
back through his memories, first to an empty bus, then to the bar where he was drinking and
the bartender took his keys. Amber also shows up briefly, raising Wilson’s suspicions. Finally
they tap into House’s memories on the bus and he remembers one passenger picking his nose,
which indicates a tumor. The passenger checks out, but then the driver reveals that his legs are
paralyzed.
All tests prove negative but House wonders if a smell might have triggered a memory. Foreman
orders antibiotics for myelitis while House starts sniffing the patients’ clothing while taking more
Vicodin for the pain. The odors trigger a memory and the driver (House’s subconscious) questions
why House doesn’t get treatment. The other passengers appear, including a woman in expensive
black clothing who House concludes wasn’t on the bus so must be coming somewhere else.
Wilson brings him out of it and insists he undergo a MRI, which indicates he’s suffering from
short-term memory. While Wilson runs the test, he finally picks up that House didn’t visualize
Amber naked in his hallucinations, and figures that means House has feelings for her despite
House’s denials. House persists on dealing with the diagnosis, although he can’t explain why
he’s so obsessed with the case. He goes to the cafeteria to work through a list of symptoms but
suffers from increasingly severe headaches.
The driver starts recovering thanks to antibiotic treatment but House thinks it’s too fast and
the driver starts suffering from stomach pains. House suspects Addison but Foreman notices
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that House is bleeding from his ear. House decides to go into sensory deprivation to help him tap
into his memories. This time Cuddy is on the bus in House’s memories and he fantasizes her in
a skimpy schoolgirl outfit. The fantasy of Cuddy starts a pole dance while discussing the case,
and then they’re in the strip bar and go through a diagnosis. Fantasy Cuddy finally calls a halt
to it since House’s subconscious would rather diagnose than fantasize about her, and the driver
calls out for attention and suggests he has Parkinson’s, although his ear is bleeding just like
House’s. The Woman in Black appears claiming she’s the answer, and the driver prods House
into remembering he had a shuffling limp just like someone with Parkinson’s. He’s interrupted
when Cuddy and the others get him out. He tells them to treat for Parkinson’s. . . and then
collapses.
House wakes up to find a Nurse Dickerson examining him at home, along with a security
guard, and figures they’ve eliminated Parkinson’s. House calls in and finally orders them to run
a bagel test to confirm TPP: eating bagels and exercising on a treadmill. After Dickerson takes
his cell phone, House steals her cell phone and takes refuge in the bathroom and listens to the
driver’s breathing, and the driver collapses from the strain. He’s wheezing, eliminating House’s
current diagnosis of TPP
Cuddy calls House back in as the driver has trouble breathing. He realizes the driver has
had recent dental surgery, and concludes that he has an air bubble in his gum from the dental
surgery that has moved to his heart and caused a myoclonic jerk that moved through his body,
causing the symptoms. House seals off the room so they can’t move him, then positions the
patient to force the bubble to the driver’s heard and orders Thirteen to get inject his heart to get
the air bubble out. Thirteen ignores Cuddy’s orders to stop and goes ahead with the procedure,
saving the bus driver’s life.
Cuddy takes House home and stands guard so he doesn’t leave. He gets up and goes into the
living room, only to find the Woman in Black there in his dream. She’s wearing a necklace with
a fly in resin, and he thinks it indicates a fly in the ointment: something he’s missing. He finds
a red scarf in his hand and decides he needs to tie it around her leg. She says she’s cold and he
says to stay with him, and then wonders why he said it. He sees her bleeding around the scarf,
then wakes up and tells Cuddy it isn’t over: he saved the wrong person.
House explains that he saw something else in someone else, and the crash triggered the air
bubble in the driver. She wonders why it matters so much to him, and he suggests that they
recreate the accident with hospital staff wearing photos of the patients on their shirts. He gets
a memory flash of the woman Cameron represents wearing a locket, and then starts taking
Alzheimer drugs to put his brain into overdrive, despite the risks to his heart. House starts to
remember the accident and sees the Woman again. She says he knows who she is, and asks
what her necklace is made of. He finally realizes it’s made of amber, and the woman is Amber,
and sees her on the bus just before the impact. He then relives the entire accident and in the
aftermath, sees her bleeding from a head wound with a pipe through her leg. He uses her red
scarf as a tourniquet on her leg as she says she’s cold, but then he collapses as an EMT gets her
out of the wrecked bus. He then gets out, his hands covered in blood, and limps to the nearby
strip bar.
House wakes up as the team attempts to revive him from his heart attack, and House tries
to explain that Amber was on the bus. Wilson realizes he hasn’t talked to her since before the
accident, and they realize she was the Jane Doe #2, who was transferred to Princeton General.
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Wilson’s Heart (2)
Season 4
Episode Number: 86
Season Episode: 16
Originally aired:
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Peter Blake (IV), David Foster (II), Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
Katie Jacobs
Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Anne Dudek (Amber), Kal Penn (Dr.
Lawrence Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Fred Durst (Bartender), Dan Desmond (Doctor), Jennifer Crystal Foley
(Taub’s Ex)
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In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head
injuries and short-term memory loss, and must remember the symptom he saw before one of their own, who was on the bus with House,
dies
House and Wilson go to the hospital to check on Amber, who had her kidneys destroyed in the
crash. Her heart is racing despite the fact the doctors have patched her up from bus accident.
House gets Wilson to pretend to be her husband to get her moved to Princeton-Plainsboro, but
en route her heart races out of control. House prepares to defib but Wilson suggests they use ice
packs instead as otherwise the heart condition will cause brain damage. House agrees and they
lower her body temperature.
Chase stabilizes Amber at the hospital while the team runs a differential but doesn’t come
up with anything and her limited heart activity is restricting their ability to diagnose. He orders
an angiogram and has Kutner and Thirteen go to Amber’s house to take samples. Taub asks if
House was having an affair with Amber and might have done drugs. House can’t rule it out due
to his amnesia and Taub runs a tox screen. Meanwhile, Kutner finds some digital video of Wilson
and Amber having sex, and Thirteen has him shut it down, noting that none of them should be
involved.
In his office, House dreams an encounter with Amber, who wants him to remember exactly
what they were doing and pours him a glass of sherry. She suggests they had an affair and
mentions electricity just as he wakes up. He suggests they use electricity to stimulate his memories but Cuddy and Wilson refuse. When Wilson speaks, Amber’s EKG reacts although House
dismisses it as a random spike. Kutner and Thirteen report that they’ve found diet pills she had
hidden that could account for the heart damage. However, they’ll have to restore her body temperature to test the heart and Wilson refuses. House agrees and tells them to crack open her
chest to check for calcification. As they leave, House confronts Thirteen, noting that she didn’t
even help in the search and she needs to get her head on straight and treat Amber as any other
patient.
They take Amber into surgery but notices that she’s jaundiced, which diet pills wouldn’t
account for liver shut down. They suggest they let the disease continue to run further tests but
Wilson doesn’t agree and insists they refrigerate her further. House is trying to figure out what
the sherry means from his dream, and Kutner notes there’s a Sharrie’s Bar. House tells them
to fill Amber’s lungs with slurry, then takes Wilson to the bar. The bartender recognizes House
and tosses him his keys, then notes that Amber was sneezing. The bartender thinks House was
”in to” Amber, raising Wilson’s suspicions. House wonders if the sneezing indicates a parasite or
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an infection. Meanwhile, Kutner wonders what House told Thirteen and catches her before she
makes a mistake. He warns her not to take it personally and describes how his parents were
killed by a robber.
House returns with the conclusion that she has Hep B based on her sneezing, and orders
interferon treatment. Foreman goes to tell Wilson since House is still concussed. House goes to
see Amber, who he hallucinates waking up. She says his diagnosis is lame and takes off her
blouse to reveal her back. . . and House wakes up. He goes into the ICU and checks her back,
revealing a rash. They run a new differential while Wilson wonders how House knew there was a
rash there. He orders Thirteen to run a test to see if it’s an abscess and when she hesitates, he
orders her out and has Taub do the test. It proves negative and Foreman wonders if it’s Rocky
Mounted Spotted Fever caused by a tick. House orders an antibiotic, but it’ll take eight hours
and they’ll have to restart her heart. Wilson insists they don’t restart her heart until they’re
100% certain. House agrees with Wilson and orders the blood cultures, and Foreman is angry
that House is giving in out of personal concerns.
Thirteen takes refuge in the woman’s restroom and House takes up residence in the next
stall. She admits she’s screwing up and admits that she is at risk from Huntington’s, and House
notes she is dealing with it by not dealing with it. She accuses him of screwing up the case worse
than she is. The team waits for the test to come back, while Thirteen takes a blood sample for
Huntington’s. Foreman goes to Cuddy and notes that House is going to kill the patient. Wilson
comes in to find that Cuddy and Foreman are restarting her heart. Her EEG slows and Wilson
notes they’ve let it spread to her brain.
House now suspects autoimmune set off by the crash, but Wilson warns that the steroids will
trash her immune system. House stays by his diagnosis and Wilson storms off, but then comes
back to admit that he was afraid. House assures him it’ll be okay, but Wilson wants to try deep
brain simulation with electricity to see if there’s something else House isn’t remembering. He
wants House to risk his life to save Amber’s. . . and House agrees.
Chase administers electrical shock directly into House’s hypothalamus and he remembers the
bartender taking his keys. House then calls Wilson, but Wilson notes that he was on call. Wilson
realizes that Amber was home and House told her to find Wilson to pick him up. Instead, she
came to get him and he has her have a drink with him. Once she drinks it, she sneezes and House
remembers her snot being clear. House then leaves without paying, heading for the bus. Amber
covers his tab and gets on the bus with him, and House wonders if she’s doing it for House or
Wilson. She mentions she’s getting a flu, which explains the rash. However, he also remembers
seeing her take some amantadine pills. House realizes that she has amantadine poisoning. When
she lost her kidneys in the crash, her system couldn’t handle the amantadine. Wilson believes
they can cure her with dialysis but House warns that the amantadine binds with proteins and
dialysis can’t clear it out: there’s nothing they can do. House relives the crash again. . . and then
has a seizure.
The team concludes that the shaking widened his skull fracture, resulting in brain bleeding
and possible cognitive impairment. Amber’s heart is irrevocably damaged and she can’t qualify
for transplant because of the damage to her other organs. Cuddy suggests they wake her up so
Wilson can tell her what she means to him and to say goodbye. Wilson reluctantly agrees and
explains what happened to her, and she realizes what she means. They both say they love each
other and embrace.
The team resolves to say goodbye to Amber and then she says it’s time for her to go to sleep,
over Wilson’s objections that they need a little longer. He wonders why she isn’t angry and she
says that isn’t the last feeling she wants to have. He then shuts down her life support and holds
her as she dies.
House is in his coma and finds himself n a white light with Amber, aboard the bus. He thinks
he should be dead and wonders if Wilson will hate him. Amber tells him to get off the bus but
House doesn’t want to since he’s now free of pain, and free of Wilson hating him. Amber notes he
can’t always get what he wants, and he wakes up in his hospital bed with Cuddy hovering over
him.
Thirteen confirms that she has Parkinson’s.
Taub goes home to his ex-wife and embraces her.
Kutner eats cereal and watches movies.
Foreman, Cameron, and Chase share a drink together.
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Wilson watches House as he wakes up, then just walks away. He returns home to find a note
from Amber saying that she went to pick up House.
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Season Five
Dying Changes Everything
Season 5
Episode Number: 87
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired:
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Summary:
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Eli Attie
Deran Sarafian
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Lisa Edelstein (Lisa Cuddy), Omar
Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson),
Chase)
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Christine Woods (Lou), Jamie Rose (Patty Michener), Bob Sherer (Patient), Janet Song (Surgeon), David Kagen (C.E.O.), Paul Haitkin (Another Suit)
In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital. . . and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles with her personal medical problems while helping treat an executive assistant with a similar personality to her own. Read
Patty Mishner, the head of Woman’s
Majority, arrives at a company meeting
with her assistant Lou to give them advice
on how to deal with women’s issues. As
she talks to the board, Lou starts hallucinating being covered with ants and starts
ripping off her clothing.
House is in the coma patient’s room
playing video games and ducking Cuddy.
She finds him anyway and tells him that
Wilson’s back. House says Wilson wanted time alone and left him to himself. Foreman arrives
and informs them about Lou’s case. Cuddy suggests someone else takes the case, but House
takes it rather than talk to Wilson. The team meets and goes over Lou’s travel history and the
possibility she’s taking amphetamines to keep up with her job. Taub suspects a B-12 deficiency
due to work pressure but Thirteen believes she has cancer and doesn’t think it’s work-related.
House jumps in and talks about her having Huntington’s Chorea, then backs Taub’s diagnosis
and orders vitamin treatments. Afterward, the rest of the team approaches Thirteen, who denies
having Huntington and accuses House of deflecting his problems into her.
Lou is on the phone talking with her boss when Thirteen arrives to give her vitamin boosters.
Lou suddenly says she’s had a bowel movement, but Thirteen realizes she’s bleeding anally.
House goes to see Wilson, who says that he’s leaving. House suggests that emotional pain
fades away but Wilson doesn’t believe it. When Thirteen informs him about Lou’s condition,
House sends her away and tells Wilson to get over the textbook grief reactions. Wilson cuts him
off and leaves.
Thirteen and Taub conduct a rectum probe and Thirteen isn’t thrilled with House putting his
personal issues before the patient. They don’t discover a source for bleeding but Kutner reveals
that the pre-procedure test for pregnancy showed positive. They administer an ultrasound to Lou
who defends her choice to relieve her needs. However, they find no sign of a fetus. They go to
House and confirm the B-12 treatments are kicking in but Lou’s heart is still slowing. House tells
them to go ahead and confronts Wilson again and tells him that he’s suffering too. Wilson doesn’t
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take that well. The others come in and Wilson informs them that he’s leaving. House focuses on
the case again and goes to see Lou. He mistakes her for being age 27 instead of 37 because of
her good skin, then administers another ultrasound. He determines the fetus descended into her
intestines and orders surgery to remove it. Thirteen confronts House, insisting they should try to
save the fetus. He refuses and questions her judgment and thinks the knowledge of her condition
is coloring her decisions.
Thirteen goes to Lou, who is fine with having the fetus removed. Meanwhile, House goes to
see Cameron and suggests she talk to Wilson because she lost her husband.
Chase starts the operation, but Lou’s blood pressure starts dropping and they just manage to
stabilize her and remove the fetus.
House goes to Cuddy and suggests she block Wilson’s references to other hospitals. Cuddy
would rather House apologize to Wilson, but he refuses because he doesn’t feel responsible for
her death. She tells him to tell Wilson he feels like crap but he insists it’s meaningless.
Lou is now having neurological problems and flat lines, and they call House. House is in
Wilson’s office and asks if apologizing would change anything. When Wilson refuses to consider
it, House states that he’ll go home and ignore his patients until Wilson agrees to stay. As Lou’s
condition worsens, House leaves the hospital.
The team goes into differential without House, and with Cuddy supervising. She tells them
she’s confident in their abilities and leaves. Thirteen suggests MS, which matches all the current
symptoms, and Foreman authorizes interferon treatment. Cuddy goes to see House and point
out that he’s running away as well, but House closes the door in her face.
Lou regains consciousness and wants House to treat her. She insists she’d be nothing without
Patty and when Thirteen objects, Lou admits that not everyone is equal. She starts to shiver due
to fever, disproving the MS diagnosis.
House comes back to the hospital to confront Cuddy because she’s managed to disconnect
his cable. She’s also taken the doctor’s lounge remote, and called Wilson in on a fake emergency.
She refuses to give up his salary history or give House cable access until they both sit down and
work things out.
The team goes over the recording of the surgery and Kutner spots a possible ganglioma that
could be causing the symptoms. They decide they’ll have to open Lou up again and determine
exactly what is it. Meanwhile, House and Wilson aren’t interested in talking about anything
except Cuddy. She finally tells Wilson he can’t run away and he storms out, noting that no one
at the hospital liked Amber.
Chase believes the lump was a hematoma which is why he ignored it during the surgery.
He refuses to operate, insisting that Lou won’t survive a second round of anesthesia. Thirteen
insists he would agree if it was House, but he notes they’re not House. Kutner comes up with an
alternative: inserting a lighted probe up her rectum and finding the lump, then pushing it up to
the skin and removing it.
Thirteen informs Lou about the procedure, and the assistant reveals that she was fired. Thirteen wonders how Lou can let Patty treat her that way, but Lou has no problem with it and
admits she’d rather aspire to greatness then achieve it.
They go ahead with the procedure and cut out the suspected ganglioma. Meanwhile, Cameron
talks to Wilson and warns him that he’s not making a rational choice even if he thinks so now.
She admits the pain eventually gets easier but never goes away, and he can’t handle seeing anything that reminds him of Amber. She says she has the same problems with her dead husband
even now, and warns that there’s no ”right” choice to make.
They determine that the lump is not a ganglioma, but indicates amyloidosis. They don’t know
what the cause of it is and have to determine it or she’ll never leave. They all disagree on the
cause, so Foreman takes the information to Wilson. He suspects lymphoma, confirming Thirteen’s guess, and Foreman orders chemo. He tells Wilson that he should leave: everyone else
would and anything that might make his life easier would help.
Thirteen talks to Lou as she receives chemo. Lou says she’s feeling better and says that
Thirteen might be able to aspire to more. In response, Thirteen explains she has Huntington’s
and she wants to make her life matters before it runs out. Lou admits that Thirteen has inspired
her and she’s applying for a job at a foundation.
House has obtained the nurse’s remote and is preparing to watch his soaps. Cuddy asks him
why he thinks Wilson is leaving, and then says she hoped he would say something insensitive
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and. . . true. She figures he’s afraid to learn why Wilson is really leaving. House is thinking about
something else: he goes to see Lou and notes she know looks like 37. He tells them to stop the
chemo and takes a sample from a bruise on her leg. He reveals that she has diffuse lepromatous
leprosy, acquired when she was traveling overseas. The symptoms include smooth skin, explaining why Lou looked 10 years younger. He orders antibiotics and leaves for his soap opera, and
Thirteen is irritated that House was right.
Later, Thirteen talks to Lou, confirming House’s diagnosis. Lou admits that she’s going back
to work for Patty and she doesn’t want her to change: she’s happy being an employee rather than
an employer. House talks to Thirteen later: she considers Lou an idiot but House notes that only
dying changes everything. Realizing what he’s said, he goes to Wilson. . . and apologizes. Wilson
admits he doesn’t blame House, and even tried to find something to blame on House. But he
warns that they’re not okay: he’s leaving because he’s tired of enabling and protecting House.
They’re not friends any more. . . and Wilson wonders if they ever were.
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Not Cancer
Season 5
Episode Number: 88
Season Episode: 2
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David Shore, Lawrence Kaplow
David Straiton
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa
Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Robert
Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson)
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Kal Penn (Dr.
Lawrence Kutner), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub)
Denice J. Sealy (Nurse), Tyler Patton (Neurosurgeon), Eric Kaldor
(Frank), Mark Beltzman (Tibalt Oyylant), Mike Gaines (Morgan),
Jamine Alvarez (April), Christine Lucas (Emma), Melissa Loprire (Girl),
Michael Weston (Lucas), Felicia Day (Apple), Tim Conlon (Dr. O’Shea),
Elaine Kagan (Belinda)
An organ donor’s organs are responsible for the deaths of several patients, and the team work to save the last two recipients. Meanwhile,
House hires a private detective to keep tabs on Wilson.
Two women are playing tennis when
one of them collapses, clutching at her
chest. On a construction site, a crane
worker dies in his seat. A kickboxer dies
in the middle of a match. A tuba player
starts vomiting blood in the middle of a
rehearsal and expires. Thirteen arrives
at a college class and informs the math
teacher, Apple, that she had a corneal
transplant five years ago, and four other
people who received a transplant from the same donor died.
Apple is taken to the hospital where they determine four of the victims are dead and one more,
an elderly man named Frank, is on the verge of death. The team is unable to determine a common
denominator and House is more concerned about Wilson’s absence. Finally House goes with a
diagnosis of cancer and orders them to run more tests. He then heads for the cafeteria where he
approaches Dr. O’Shea as a possible Wilson-replacement. Things look potentially promising until
O’Shea refuses to go home with House to watch TV that night. Foreman arrives to inform House
that Apple’s eye is failing and they have to remove it. Apple starts hallucinating that House plans
to decapitate her, indicating something is wrong with her brain.
House goes over video of the kickboxer looking for signs of brain damage. The janitor interrupts to berate Taub and Kutner for being idiots, but they soon notice that he’s wearing the
wrong type of socks. They conclude he’s a private investigator and House admits he hired him.
The detective, Lucas, has already put together the information about the dead individuals that
they need. Even House is impressed at his thoroughness.
They need to do a biopsy and appeal to Frank’s wife for approval, and Apple adds her urging,
lying that she has a family. Taub reluctantly tellsFrank’s wife the truth. Frank stops breathing
ad dies despite Taub’s efforts. House orders him to save the brain so they can do an autopsy.
They determine Frank’s brain is clean and House still suspects cancer. Foreman accuses House
of suggesting cancer so he has a reason to call in Wilson. Kutner suggest a perforated intestine
and bacterial infection that spread through the blood and infected all the organs. Houses a DNA
check via a colonoscopy on the donor’s daughter.
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House meets with Lucas, who figures that House wants him to hire him to check out Wilson
and see if there’s something House can use to get Wilson to come back. House asks if there
is something, and Lucas admits there isn’t. House returns to the hospital where Kutner and
Foreman improve him the colonoscopy proved clean. House still believes in cancer and Kutner
suggests they use a high- pressure water jet to apply pressure to Frank’s colon. There are no
leaks but Foreman spots what appears to be a core lesion. Kutner increases the pressure and
Frank’s intestines and body wastes spray out on Foreman.
Apple’s heart starts racing but there’s no indication her colon is leaking. The team has nothing
new and House orders chemo for the cancer he suspects she has. He goes to her room and signals
an emergency when he can’t find the medical records on Apple’s bed. He then asks Apple to sign
a consent form to receive chemotherapy, noting that he can’t tell her she has cancer because
then she might think the treatment is working. Nonetheless, he hints she has cancer. As she
signs, Apple talks about how she was an architect but gave it up after her corneal transplant.
She notes that she thought her life would be better once she saw, but nothing improved and her
parents were still dead. Apple notes that House doesn’t seem much different, and he notes that
at least he hasn’t given up.
Lucas reports in to tell House that Wilson has a new job. He points a woman out that he’s
following because he likes her, then informs House that Wilson is attending grief counseling and
Cameron and Cuddy have been at his house several times. Lucas starts following the girl and
House has to trail along. The girl finally confronts them and says they’re making her uncomfortable. After she leaves, Lucas notes that Wilson hasn’t said anything about House. House gets
a page and heads to the hospital where Apple is vomiting from the chemo but her system is
stabilizing. Foreman is surprised House was right, but House concludes that it isn’t cancer.
Back in differential, House notes he never thought it was cancer but thought it acted like
cancer. Now he wants to find something that is similar to cancer, and notes the last patient was
using an anti-cancer medicine for his arthritis and it didn’t save him. He goes to Wilson and asks
for an epiphany, wanting to bounce ideas off of him. Wilson tries to shut him out and House asks
how he’s doing. Wilson begs him not to do this so he can move on, and House accuses him of
talking to the others. House admits he hired a private detective to watch Wilson because they’re
not friends any more, then tries to run a diagnosis. Wilson refuses and warns he won’t answer
the door the next time House knocks.
Lucas is outside and tries to advise House on friendship. . . and gives House an idea. He goes to
see Cuddy and shows her Apple’s CAT scan. It indicates something is in there that her brain isn’t
compensating for. House believes that the donor had cancer stem cells that attached themselves
to the donor’s various organs, and when transplanted eventually gave out and stopped working.
He wants to open up Apple’s skull before it’s too late for her, and Cuddy wonders if House is going
to do something to make Apple crash prematurely. She puts guards on Apple’s room and House
calls Lucas to have him sneak in and tamper with Apple’s IV. She crashes and goes into surgery
where they have to open up her skull. House suggests they check her IV and Chase figures he
switched the meds but has little choice but to continue. They attach a neural net while Lucas
comes into the observation gallery and realizes that House lied to him about how dangerous it
was for Apple to switch the meds. The neural net will detect her nerve impulses and show them
the problem. They spot the defective brain cells and remove them.
Later, House goes to visit Apple and explains that the world is ugly but not as ugly as she
thought. Her brain wasn’t working properly and the transplanted brain cells were making things
dull and unattractive to her. He takes off the bandages and Apple sees the world for what it
is. . . and notes that House looks sad.
House is in his office and calls to put Lucas on retainer.
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Adverse Events
Season 5
Episode Number: 89
Season Episode: 3
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Carol Green, Dustin Paddock
Andrew Bernstein
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Kal Penn
(Dr. Lawrence Kutner), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Marika Dominczyk (Heather), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), Sarah Knowlton (Susan), Drew Powell (Anthony), Breckin Meyer (Brandon), Liz Benoit (Surgical Nurse),
Bart Tangredi (Man), Deanna Smith (Female Doctor), David Goldman
(Short Doctor)
HOU-503
A painter’s undiagnosed illness affects his work, and House and his
team must look at the man’s paintings to determine what’s wrong with
him.
Brandon, an artist, is doing a nude
portrait of a woman as her husband
looks on. He completes the painting and
the couple look at it. . . and draw back
in horror. Brandon doesn’t see what’s
wrong with the portrait, but the husband
punches him. Brandon’s wife Heather
comes downstairs as the couple leaves
and shows Brandon the portrait: the
wife’s face is distorted.
House meets with Lucas in the cafeteria to get his report on the staff when Cuddy comes in
and wants to meet the person House is paying out of the hospital funds. Cuddy refuses to pay
for House’s detective. In the staff room, the team goes over Brandon’s recent work which shows
no other distorted portraits. Foreman suspects visual agnosia and Thirteen believes drugs are
involved. House is more interested in revealing what he’s learned about Kutner and Thirteen. He
admits he doesn’t have anything on Taub, but he does have info on Taub’s wife. House refuses
to say what and goes with the diagnosis of a tumor and prepare tests. Brandon is nervous at
having them do tests and insists he’s feeling better, but reluctantly gives in. Meanwhile, Kutner
and Taub check Brandon’s apartment but don’t find any toxins or drugs. Taub says he doesn’t
care what his wife is doing.
The tests prove clean and House hears that Brandon is worried about the tests. He concludes
that Brandon is enrolled in drug testing to make money to keep up appearances for his wife,
since he can’t sell his paintings. Brandon admits that he’s enrolled in the three drug trials but
his system should be clean now. He tells Thirteen to find out what the drugs are and goes back
to his office, where Taub is there and finally asks what House knows. House says that Taub’s
wife Rachel is putting $83,000 in a secret bank account, but Taub says he knows and it’s going
into renovations for their home. House is skeptical, but they’re interrupted when they get a page
that Brandon is having a seizure.
None of the drugs cause seizure but House assumes that some mix of the drugs are responsible. House orders dialysis to clear Brandon’s system for sure. Taub administers it and Brandon
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is worried that Heather might suspect something and wants to cover up the dialysis. Thirteen
realizes that Taub is lying, but Taub doesn’t see a reason to bring it up with his wife.
The next morning, Taub reports that the dialysis is apparently working and House wants to
know if Taub has told his wife. House then checks in with Lucas via a hidden radio headset.
Lucas is camped out in the lobby and Cuddy notices him. The detective wonders why House is
so interested, and if Taub’s marital problems will make him work harder, or quit. Meanwhile,
Brandon’s throat and face swell up and Foreman has to do an exploratory tracheotomy. They
administer steroids and cream to reduce the swelling without success. House still believes the
mix of trial drugs is responsible and the new symptoms are from withdrawal. House suggests
they detox him more effectively by readministering the drugs and then weaning him off them
slowly.
Cuddy confronts Lucas in the lobby, only to find out that the detective has paid someone who
looks like him to sit there. She finds Lucas in her office, going through her drawers. He says he’s
doing it for free because he’s interested in her but hasn’t found anything. As he leave, he offers
to give her interesting information about House in return for the chance to talk to her.
At home, Taub and wife are having supper when he finally confronts her about the bank
account. Embarrassed, she admits that she bought him the car he always wanted. Meanwhile,
Thirteen monitors the drugs in Brandon’s systems. . . and he grabs her and yanks her onto the
bed. She punches him to get free .
Now that the drugs are cleared out of Brandon’s system, the team goes back to differential
to find new theories. Taub admits that he asked his wife what was going on and demands an
apology to House. House kind of apologizes. . . and then wonders why Rachel would give Taub a
car. House goes orders Taub to stay the night and conduct tests. Then House goes home and
finds Lucas in his closet trying to find something embarrassing to give Cuddy. House wants
Lucas to find something on Cuddy for future negotiations and Lucas agrees.
Kutner and Taub find narrow blood vessels and Taub believes that Brandon recently acquired
a heart arrhythmia due to the drugs, and the narrowed blood vessels are causing the symptoms.
House tells them to test Brandon’s heart for arrhythmia. As they proceed, Taub tells Brandon he
shouldn’t confess to Heather if he’s doing it to make himself feel better. They test the heart while
Taub wonders when House will let him go home. Brandon’s heart goes into overdrive and they’re
forced to stabilize it, but House is more interested in the fact that Brandon’s hair is growing in
red.
The new symptoms suggest Romano-Ward Syndrome. . . except for the melanin change. They
need to do a cardiac sympathectomy but they’re not sure if Brandon’s heart is stable enough to
handle the operation.
Lucas goes to Cuddy with a photo showing that House was a cheerleader in college. In return
he gets to answer her personal questions. However, he realizes that she knows it’s a fake photo.
He admits he likes her because she’s hot and smart, but he wonders why she isn’t suspicious of
the photo. He figures she must know it’s a doctored photo, which means she knows it’s a game.
He apologizes and starts to leave, then concludes that since she knew he wasn’t going to give her
anything worthwhile, she must really be interested in him. Satisfied, he sits back down with her.
Thirteen and Taub explain the procedure to Brandon, but he suffers from vision agnosia and
mistakes them for someone else. House believes the agnosia is irrelevant and they still need to do
a sympathectomy. Taub wonders if Brandon is suffering from a toxin from contaminated paint a
year ago that got into his fat cells, and is being released as he loses weight at the hospital. House
gives Taub an hour to prove his theory. Taub goes to Brandon and tries to talk to him alone, but
Heather realizes something is wrong and insists on hearing the truth. Brandon tells her how he’s
been making money from drug trials, then concealed it from her to maintain her image of him.
She insists that she loves him for who he is, and he tells Taub where the unsold paintings are.
As Chase prepares to perform the sympathectomy, Taub finds the paintings and determines
that Brandon suffer from agnosia while painting only some of them: on the odd months. Those
were the months Brandon was on the trial, but can’t account for the symptoms now. House
realizes that Brandon was taking antacid before he took the drugs. He calls the operating room
and tells them to conduct abdominal surgery to remove a bezor. Taub explains to Heather that
there was a buildup of food that formed in Brandon’s stomach and absorbed the drugs, then
started releasing them. With the bezor removed, Brandon is fined. Taub asks Heather if she’s
happier knowing the truth, but before she can answer Rachel arrives to show Taub his car. He
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sees it. . . and then says they need to talk.
Lucas is playing the piano at House’s apartment when House arrives. The detective explains
that Cuddy didn’t accept the photo, and he didn’t get anything on Cuddy. Lucas has checked out
House’s college on the Internet and discovered that the photo was real. He figures House to see
Cuddy differently, and she didn’t believe it and couldn’t even conceive it was possible. As they
play a duet, Lucas suggests he back off from romancing Cuddy and House jokingly asks if he
would.
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Birthmarks
Season 5
Episode Number: 90
Season Episode: 4
Originally aired:
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Tuesday October 14, 2008
David Foster (II), Doris Egan
David Platt
James Wilson)
Samantha Quan (Nicole), Christine Healy (Janice), Scott Paulin (Bob),
Jack Conley (Sheriff Costello), Diane Baker (Blythe House), Ho-Kwan
Tse (Fang Dong We), Raymond Ma (Wu Zheng), Esther Kwan (Wu An
Lan), Jonathan Palmer (Minister)
While en route to his father’s funeral, House must help the team with a
differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under
mysterious circumstances.
At a Buddhist temple in China, a
woman, Nicole, and her translator approach a couple trying to obtain some
birth information about her. They say
they have no daughter. With no other
choice, Nicole makes a wish which involves lifting a Buddha, making a wish,
then trying to lift it again. If the wisher
can’t lift it the second time, the wish will
come true. Nicole can’t lift the Buddha
the second time. . . and collapses, vomiting blood.
House arrives for differential after Nicole is brought to the hospital, and is going over information on his co-workers when he’s informed that his mother called, twice. House already knows
she’s calling about the fact his father died but says he’s fine and starts on the case. Taub suggests that House call but House has deduced that he told his wife about his affair. House finally
checks in with the patient, and her adopted parents come in. They’ve brought Nicole’s medications and are concerned about the fact she’s still drinking heavily. As House goes through the
medications, he discovers licorice root and concludes that the Chinese doctors were treating her
for SARS, which accounts for all of Nicole’s symptoms.
Cuddy comes in to House’s office to offer her condolences and administer IG shots for everyone
who came in contact with Nicole. She already has a flight scheduled for House, and informs him
his mother wants him to give a eulogy.
Nicole’s birth parents have brought her adopted brother and sister there and Kutner treats her
while treating her for SARS. She wonders if House is okay from being in contact with her. . . and
in his office, he collapses. Meanwhile, Nicole crashes and Kutner realizes her liver’s failing and
it’s not SARS.
House wakes up to discover he’s in a car. . . with Wilson driving. House realizes that Wilson
drugged him after House’s mother called him, not Cuddy. Wilson claims he’s not doing it because
he cares, and keeps House down to one Vicodin, enough to keep him on a leash. House gets a
call from the team and Wilson reluctantly lets him take it. Nicole had a clot in the hepatic vein
and they sucked it out. Thirteen insists that Nicole is a smoker and drinker, which combined
with a genetic defect would account for the clots.
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Kutner goes to treat Nicole, only to find that she’s gone. Meanwhile, House needs to pee and
Wilson offers him a bottle. House calls his bluff and Wilson pulls over to a rest stop, but refuses
to give him his cane. House starts to reminisce about the summer his father refused to talk to
him, but refuses to lie to his mother by going to the funeral. House asks for his cane in return
for the funeral and Wilson agrees. House promptly smacks his hand, knocking the keys into the
sewer.
Kutner finds Nicole outside smoking. She asks for five minutes alone but he declines and
starts taking blood. Nicole admits that she feels isolated by being adopted by a white family, and
Kutner notes he was as well. As he starts taking blood, she starts bleeding uncontrollably and
he gets her back inside.
Stuck at a rest stop, House talks more about his abrasive father while Wilson gets the keys
out of the sewer. Wilson isn’t interested in hearing about it or providing any support or enabling.
Meanwhile, Cameron is picking out a bouquet to send on House’s behalf, and Foreman suspects
Nicole has a tumor. Chase doesn’t believe that House is okay with his father’s death.
On the road, Wilson also believes that House has feelings, until House claims he was adopted.
He lays out all the deductions he made to conclude that his father isn’t his birth father, but
Wilson assumes he’s deflecting again. When he spots a cop car up ahead, House jams his cane
onto the accelerator and they get pulled over.
Taub and Kutner run a MRI test on Nicole and discuss Nicole’s adoption. Taub figures that
Kutner likes her, but they spot something unusual on the MRI. Meanwhile, Wilson lied to the
police about the fact House got him pulled over. The team calls House and reveals they’ve found
a mass on the pancreas. The officer orders Wilson out of the car and handcuffs him, then orders House out as well, interrupting his attempts to differential by making a metaphor about
steamrollers. They reveal there’s a warrant in Louisiana for Wilson’s arrest.
The team tries to decipher House’s steamroller metaphor, and Taub tries to get back to House
or Wilson. House and Wilson are at the station and the police refuse to let him take his call.
Wilson accuses House of not taking care of the charges of assault and vandalism at a medical
convention in New Orleans. When Wilson mentions House is trying to avoid the funeral, Sheriff
Costello takes an interest.
Foreman meets with Cameron and Chase to try and decipher House’s reaction to the information on the pancreas. They conclude she has gallstones. . . at the same time that the rest of
the team figures out House’s metaphor indicated gallstones.
Wilson explains how he got into a fight over a jukebox song and after Wilson broke a bottle,
House bailed him out so he’d have someone to talk to. Costello releases them, much to House’s
dismay, and tells House to go pay his respects to his dead father.
Chase prepares to remove the gallstones but discovers that Nicole’s urine is brown: her kidneys are failing and it’s not gallstones.
Back on the road, House contacts his team and informs them he didn’t mean gallstones.
He explains it’s a multiple cysts connected to all the related organs. Thirteen suggests injecting
bubbles into the cyst to see where they go. Wilson finds the funeral home. Meanwhile, Nicole
starts to go through the DTs.
Blythe House greets her son and asks him to do the eulogy for her: her husband’s dead and
there’s nothing more for House to be angry at. Wilson is skeptical. Meanwhile, Kutner explains
to Nicole’s adopted parents that they’ll need to paralyze Nicole, which will also get her through
the DTs. Nicole’s parents say they’ve supported her all along and Nicole admits she’s given up on
trying to get over her addictions, but Kutner says they need to worry about making her well first.
House still refuses to give the eulogy or acknowledge he has any issues. House spots the
man that he believes is his birth father, and admits to Wilson that he informed his father about
his deductions, which is why he didn’t’ speak to House for a summer. Blythe addresses the
mourners and asks House to come up. After a few seconds, House finally gets up and says a
moving eulogy. . . and takes a skin sample. Wilson has a whispered conversation to tell him to
stop, but House refuses to give in. Wilson pulls him into the next room and House points out
that Wilson enjoys it. He notes that Wilson isn’t ready for the worse, which is why Amber’s death
hit him so hard and made him angry. He accuses Wilson of being afraid that he’ll lose House,
and Wilson finally gets mad enough to break a bottle. . . again.
Later, House and Wilson go to a diner and House explains that he saw Wilson carrying a
package at the medical conference: a package containing his first wife’s divorce paper. House
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calls the team, who has discovered that Nicole has an advanced dilated cardiomyopathy. There’s
a mass in the left atrium but they can’t confirm because the image is grainy. House concludes
that it’s iron overload, and the iron is causing the grainy image. He tells them to do a MRI to
confirm and then asks them for a phone number.
House calls Nicole’s translator in China and gets a description of the birth parents. The translator says that he doesn’t believe the couple was Nicole’s birth parents because of their reaction:
the mother was frightened. House goes over the issue with Wilson, who realizes Nicole was born
in 1983 but China introduced the one-child policy in 1979. The parents tried to kill her and
the father took Nicole to an orphanage without telling his wife. They conclude she was given
something toxic that was fat-voluble.
House gets back to the hospital where it turns out the team didn’t go through with the MRI
because Nicole started vomiting. He notes that her attempt to lift the Buddha brought on her
illness. He orders them to stop the MRI and then determines there are pins in Nicole, from her
parents’ attempt to kill her. The monks at the temple have the Buddha statue rigged with a
magnet to keep people from lifting it a second time. The magnet moved the pins in her brain and
triggered her symptoms. Once they remove the pins, Nicole will be fine. Kutner tells her adopted
parents and they ask him not to tell Kutner that her biological parents wanted her dead. Kutner
reveals that the pins have been pressing on her addiction symptoms, causing her smoking and
drinking over the years.
Wilson goes to see House in his office and finds him drinking. He shows Wilson the genetic
tests: John House wasn’t his birth father. House admits he’s depressed that it doesn’t make any
difference to him, and Wilson wonders if anybody gets to choose anyone, as their parents. . . or as
their friends. Wilson says he’s coming back because House is right: he likes being around House,
and their trip was the most fun he’s had since Amber died. They head out to grab something to
eat. . . and House acknowledges that his dad’s dead.
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Lucky Thirteen
Season 5
Episode Number: 91
Season Episode: 5
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Liz FriedmanSara Hess
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Chase)
Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Angela Gots (Spencer), Al Damji
(Paramedic), Helena Barrett (Woman With Thirteen)
Thirteen brings her one-night stand to the hospital after the woman
has a seizure. However, the woman admits she slept with Thirteen so
she could get to House and have him diagnose her condition. Meanwhile, House continues to pay Lucas to spy on Wilson.
Thirteen brings a woman, Spencer
home with her and they have sex. Afterward, Thirteen goes to the bathroom
and talks to Spencer in the other room.
They’re interrupted when Spencer falls
out of bed, convulsing. Thirteen calls the
EMTs who take Spencer to the hospital
ER where Cameron admits her. Thirteen
admits she doesn’t know Spencer’s name.
Cameron brings the case to House, but
he’s busy playing a practical joke on Wilson. He goes into Wilson’s office and finds him lying on
the floor. House asks why Wilson was late and he claims he was meeting with someone for breakfast, but then eats a doughnut. Ecstasy doesn’t account for the symptoms and House discovers
that Thirteen knows about the case because she was with Spencer at 3 a.m.
In differential, House is interested in Thirteen’s downward spiral and whether she was using
drugs. Thirteen insists that Spencer has visited four other doctors who have found nothing, and
she’s just a hypochondriac who drinks too much. House orders Thirteen to take a bone marrow
sample and goes along with her. Spencer cheerfully talks about her sexual affair with Thirteen.
House wants Lucas to investigate Wilson, noting he never eats a doughnut after a big breakfast. Lucas figures House is worried that something changed, but House tells him to check Wilson
out.
Thirteen has discovered letters from Spencer to the hospital, and realizes she used her to get
to House for treatment. Spencer admits she didn’t expect Thirteen to be so aggressive. Thirteen
prepares to discharge her but Spencer has a respiratory seizure. House now believes drugs are
involved and Thirteen realizes that her place will need to be searched. She figures House will
come up with a reason for her to stay there while he searches her apartment. She refuses to
give him her keys so House takes Foreman. However, House has had Lucas make keys of all
his team’s apartments and lets himself in. House denies having Foreman investigated or having
his key, then heads for the bedroom. Foreman notes that House knows very little about him.
Foreman picks up a letter and pockets it while House finds no sex toys, indicating she doesn’t
have regular sex partners. He also finds an asthma inhaler and a spider. He shows the team the
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spider and notes the venom can cause respiratory problems. House also reaches into his pocket
and removes the inhaler. Thirteen seems concerned until she sees what it is, and House figures
she has something more incriminating to hide.
House orders Thirteen to check Spencer for spider bites. Thirteen says she wasn’t interested
in anything other than a one-night stand, but Spencer flirts with her and suggests there was
potential. They start to kiss but Spencer can’t feel Thirteen’s hand on her hips. Thirteen reports
the new symptom to House and the fact she has low potassium that indicates kidney problems.
House proscribes surgery to remove calcification from the kidneys and confirm the diagnosis.
House and Lucas watch Wilson as he plays video games in his apartment. Lucas spots an
attractive blonde going into the apartment and to Wilson’s door. House doesn’t believe it but
Lucas notes that things change.
As Taub and Chase find the calcifications, Foreman talks to Thirteen and gives him the letter.
It reveals she has less time then they thought and suggests she should be working out. Thirteen
insists she’s busy having fun and cramming as much into her life as possible, and dismisses
Foreman’s concerns. On the operating table, Spencer has breathing problems but they can’t
find anything in the lungs to indicate problems. They wonder if the airway collapsed and House
orders a treadmill test.
Thirteen is administering an IV to herself when Cuddy comes in. Meanwhile, Foreman discovers from his family that House had Lucas investigate him. House admits he didn’t find anything. . . because Foreman hasn’t done anything interesting since he was 17.
Cuddy calls House in to inform him that she wants Thirteen to take a drug test or undergo
suspension until she agrees to. House refuses to let Cuddy test his team and escorts Thirteen
out. . . then tells her she’s fired for failing at her duties. He then visits Wilson to get caught up.
Wilson admits that he met someone new: an ex-prostitute. She wants to go to law school and he
plans to help her with her tuition. House is skeptical and Wilson notes he’s not in any position
to be judgmental. House wishes him well and leaves.
Thirteen is going over Spencer’s case trying to find something to impress House with when
Foreman comes in. He still thinks she’s acting stupid. She finds a dark spot on the x-rays that
indicate a cyst. She goes to where Spencer has just collapsed on the treadmill when one of the
cysts burst and revives her just in time.
House meets with his staff and orders the team to biopsy the cyst. . . and tells Thirteen she’s
still not going to be on the team. He then meets with House and tells Lucas about Wilson and the
prostitute. House wants Lucas to find something on the prostitute to get her to back off. Taub
interrupts them with the results of the lung biopsy. House then goes to see Thirteen as she packs
to leave and points out that she has sex with women to control them, so she can get close to
controlling herself. He then shows her Taub’s report, which shows that Spencer has LAM and has
no more than ten years to live. He suggests that Thirteen give Spencer the news, even though it
has no bearing on getting her job back. She agrees and gives Spencer the news. They’ve removed
the cysts, but they’ll inevitably grow back. Thirteen describes what she’ll go through and Spencer
realizes she’s dying as well. However, as Thirteen leaves she sees that Spencer is blaming due to
anemia.
Thirteen tells the team the symptoms and asks for the chance to work on the case. Anemia
eliminates LAM, but they have nothing to work on so House orders tests for everything. As he
runs the tests, Foreman asks Chase if he’s boring. Chase says that he is, and that he never takes
chances or puts himself at risk. Meanwhile, Thirteen holds Spencer’s hand, then gets into bed
and they kiss.
House insists that Spencer needs a bone marrow transplant but Thirteen warns that she
won’t survive the graft rejection. House tells Thirteen tog et Spencer’s consent, then returns to
his office. Lucas is there and has Wilson’s garbage, which contains drug syringes. House goes
to Wilson and tosses him the garbage: he’s figured it’s Wilson’s practical joke on him. However,
House still wants to know where Wilson was the other morning. Wilson insists that it has nothing
to do with House and they’ll still be getting together regularly. House says fine, but Wilson realizes
that House will follow him no matter what so he tells House where to find him that night.
Thirteen gets Spencer’s consent and House points out she’s in a spiral of destruction that
won’t end until she’s dead. However, until then he can use her: he gives her her job back. She
realizes that he wanted her to spend time with Spencer so she could connect with someone.
As she talks, House notices her cracked lips. Then he asks if Spencer cried when she got the
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news she was going to die. Thirteen says no and House grabs an onion and goes to see Spencer.
He cuts the onion but Spencer still doesn’t cry. House explains that she has Sjoegren’s, which
caused infections that led to the anemia. The cracked lips were caused by infection but Thirteen
only has the infection, not Sjoegren’s. Spencer will be okay.
As Thirteen leaves for the night, Foreman congratulates her but she admits she feels alone
even though Spencer is still there.
Wilson goes to a baby store to help Cuddy pick out a crib. House has followed him and
Cuddy explains that she’s adopting a baby. Wilson was testifying as a character witness the
other morning and Cuddy didn’t want anyone to know until she received approval. She asks if
House is going to congratulate her and he abruptly leaves.
Thirteen has brought another girl home for sex.
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Joy
Season 5
Episode Number: 92
Season Episode: 6
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David Hoselton
Deran Sarafian
Robert Chase)
Salvator Xuereb (Jerry Harmon), Joanna Koulis (Samantha Harmon),
Vanessa Zima (Becca), Janice Allen (Sadie)
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An ailing man suffers from blackouts and sleepwalks, leading the team
to wonder if his sleepwalking is a symptom, or how the man is becoming exposed to something else. When the man’s daughter grows ill as
well, the team must provide a diagnosis before both die. Meanwhile,
Cuddy adopts a newborn but when the birth mother displays a rash,
she has to make a decision between putting the mother or daughter at
risk.
Jerry Harmon is drinking coffee and
wants his daughter Samantha to bring
over a friend for her birthday. As she
leaves for school, she tells him she isn’t
interested and leaves. Jerry tries to find
some coffee but discovers that his five
coffee machines are empty. He gets a can
of coffee from the cupboard, turns, and
finds them all gone. His daughter comes
in and tells him that she’s back from
school: eight hours have passed without Jerry realizing it. He wipes his face. . . and finds himself
in the living room with hours later and no idea how he got there.
Cuddy brings the case to House as he arrives but he’s more interested in pointing out that as
a single mom she has little chance of adopting. She’s going to see the baby but he concludes she’s
not defensive enough. The mother, Becca, is delivering in two weeks, and has used drugs in the
past. House warns there’s probably something else wrong and notes that Cuddy isn’t equipped
to handle a child. She leaves, telling him she’s not changing her mind.
The team goes over Jerry’s case while House starts a pool on how soon Cuddy changes her
mind. The team sticks with the differential and Thirteen wonders if he was exposed to a toxin and
House has Thirteen and Taub go to Jerry’s house, which has little decoration or ornamentation.
Taub doesn’t think single parents should have kids, including Cuddy, but he also believes the
traditional family is a fraud. They find mold along the baseboard and takes samples. At the
hospital, Thirteen tests Samantha for mold and the girl says that they have no friends or do
anything outside of the home. She’s indifferent to the death of her mother when she was four
and says death is no big deal. Thirteen admits to Foreman that Samantha is weird, but as they
talk they see Jerry waiting at the elevator. He keeps repeating that he has an appointment and
has to go. Foreman checks his eyes and realizes that Jerry is asleep.
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In differential, the team considers the new symptom of sleepwalking and House prods the
team toward an answer while claiming he doesn’t have an answer himself. The mold doesn’t
account for the symptoms and House eventually suggests they send Jerry home and see what he
goes for his sleepwalking appointment.
Cuddy meets with Becca at a coffee shop and admits she hasn’t thought much about the
baby’s name, although she’s considering ”Joy.” Cuddy wonders why Becca chose her and Becca
explains that her grandfather and father treated their wives badly, and Becca’s boyfriend Tony
treated her badly. She read Cuddy’s bio and wants her child raised by someone who isn’t a loser.
Cuddy notices a rash on Becca’s arms and the girl admits she’s had overall joint pain. Cuddy
insists on getting her checked out.
Taub and Thirteen are watching Jerry when he starts sleepwalking and they follow him.
Cameron checks Becca but doesn’t determine anything worse than a heat rash. Cuddy orders
additional tests but they show normal, and she admits Becca anyway and orders a full fetal wake
up. House points out she’s acting irrationally and then throws baby vomit on her. Cuddy goes
to change her sweater and House points out that if she can’t handle a stain, she can’t handle a
baby.
Jerry is driving and Taub and Thirteen follow him in their car. He pulls up to a woman and
exchanges something. They pull up to her but she tells them to leave, and Thirteen realizes she
isn’t a hooker. They catch up to Jerry and find him with cocaine. The team wonders how Jerry
started sleepwalking before he took the cocaine. House wonders if Jerry forgot and whatever was
used to cut the cocaine caused the memory loss. He tells Taub and Thirteen to buy cocaine from
the dealer, Sadie, and test it.
Cameron conducts an ultrasound and finds a pulmonary hypoplasia: undeveloped lungs. If
the baby is born presently, it will die so they give Becca drugs to slow the labor. Cameron is
forced to admit that Cuddy was right.
Thirteen and Taub find Sadie and she sells them the good stuff, but Thirteen wants the poorer
grade stuff the dealer gives to her regulars.
Cuddy is packing when House visits her with some more insights. She’s not in a good mood
because of the baby’s condition and he notes there’s no such thing as unconditional love. House
insists that the baby would be better for Becca because at least she knows she isn’t a good
mother. Cuddy orders him out and he gets a report from Taub that the cocaine was cut with
lactose. House deduces that Jerry is lactose intolerant and orders them to give Jerry an allergy
test.
As Cuddy treats Becca, Becca figures the baby’s lungs are because of the drugs and she
wonders if Cuddy hates her. Cuddy notes that if Becca were perfect, she wouldn’t be adopting
the baby. Becca admires Cuddy’s perfect life and then her heart rate increases and her placental
wall breaks, causing vaginal bleeding. Cuddy describes the situation to House and he notes that
if they deliver the baby now they save the mother but the fetus’ lungs won’t support life. If they
wait, they put Becca at risk. House suggests Cuddy have Becca deliver now. When she agrees,
he wonders if she’s serious and told her the wrong answer. He points out that her motives aren’t
medical and some part of her doesn’t want the baby. Cuddy insists she’s telling Becca to take
the safest route.
House goes to Wilson for advice but Wilson figures House is doing it just to upset Cuddy, who
is moving on with her life and growing up. House doesn’t think much of his theory. Meanwhile,
Taub checks on Jerry who can’t believe he did coke. Taub suggests he isn’t responsible but
Jerry doesn’t accept that. As he goes over the charts, Taub notices blood on Jerry’s short: he’s
bleeding from his pores. The best diagnosis the team can come up with is leukemia and House
orders them to do a bone biopsy.
Cuddy advises Becca to wait, and the girl wonders if that’s her opinion as a doctor or as a
mother. Becca doesn’t want to wait: she wants to be rid of the baby as soon as possible for her
”stupid mistake.” Cuddy says she should keep the baby to break the cycle of the poor parenting
of her mother and grandmother, but Becca insists on delivering.
Taub and Kutner take the bone marrow sample but Taub notices that Jerry’s legs are tanned,
meaning it’s not leukemia. His kidneys are failing and his blood pressure is too low for dialysis.
House orders them to test for vasculitis but Kutner warns that Jerry will need a kidney no matter
what. House suggests they use one of Samantha’s but they need Cuddy’s permission since Jerry
has an interest. House goes to the operating theater where Chase is removing the baby. House
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insists that Cuddy’s place is acting as an administrator, not a mother. Cuddy insists on staying
and after delivery, finally the baby cries. House congratulates Cuddy then tells her she has to go
work.
Cuddy goes over the procedure with Samantha but the girl is strangely apathetic. House
refuses to proceed, saying he can’t because Samantha is sleepwalking as well. They have to
transplant to save Jerry but they can’t risk it. Thirteen reports that the daughter has started
bleeding from her pores and all they have left is a genetic disorder. Each test will take a week to
run but they have no choice but to proceed.
House talks to Wilson to come up with an idea but Wilson points out that House lost on
the pool and since Cuddy adopted, she won’t go through post-partum depression because her
dopamine receptors weren’t stranded. House gets an idea and visits the patients. He says they’ll
be fine and they don’t react. He concludes that their anhedonic, unable to feel pleasure or happiness. Jerry took cocaine because he subconsciously wanted to be happy. House realizes they
lied: he asks Jerry his real name and Jerry finally admits he’s Jamal Hammoud: he changed
it when the U.S. invaded Iraq. They have Familial Mediterranean Fever, which causes all of the
symptoms. House warns the treatment is problematic but orders them to receive the medication.
Cuddy paints the new baby’s room that night while Jerry and Samantha receive treatment.
In the morning, Jerry wakes up and is able to smile with happiness. A smiling Samantha is
similarly recovered, and can now donate her kidney to save her father.
Cuddy visits Becca and tells her the baby is doing fine. Becca admits she was selfish and
remembers Cuddy smiling at the baby. She realizes Cuddy would have done the right thing and
wants to do the same, and wants to raise her baby. Becca refuses to reconsider.
As Cuddy looks longingly at the baby in the nursery, Samantha and Jerry share some happy
moments together. Cuddy goes home and sits in the baby’s room, alone, until House arrives. He
says she can always find another baby but she doesn’t want to go through the same thing again.
He notes that she’s giving up, again, and says she would have made a great mother. Cuddy snaps
at her, noting that he’s reversing himself again. He admits he doesn’t know why he does it. . . and
then they kiss. After a few seconds he backs off, says good night, and leaves.
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The Itch
Season 5
Episode Number: 93
Season Episode: 7
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Tuesday November 11, 2008
Peter Blake (IV)
Greg Yaitanes
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Lisa
Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson),
Chase)
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Kal Penn (Dr.
Lawrence Kutner), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Todd Louiso (Stewart Nozick), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub),
Jack J. Bennett (Fireman), Yoyao Hsueh (EMT), Frank Noel (Hal), Marcus Eley (Larry Ruseckas), Diarra Kilpatrick (Sally), Kelly Michaels
(Guy), Jim Vickers (EMT #2)
The team must treat an agoraphobic who refuses to leave his house,
and have to work around Cuddy, who is less than thrilled at having
hospital equipment relocated. Meanwhile, House is plagued by an itch,
and Cameron and Chase have relationship issues.
Stewart Nozick is lying in the hallway
of his apartment, the floor covered with
rose petals. EMTs break in and administer emergency treatment, then put him
on a stretcher and take him out. Once
outside, Stewart panics and rips himself free, runs inside, and slams the door
shut.
Cameron tells House and his team
about the case, including the fact Stewart has had three seizures and crushing headaches. House orders a scan but she explains that
Stewart is an agoraphobe after he was shot and his girlfriend killed during a mugging seven
years ago. Cameron met him as part of an outreach program, although House suggests she’s
trying to get back on the team. He notices Cuddy outside and goes to talk to her. She wants
to talk about the night before when they kissed but he isn’t interested. She thanks him for not
taking advantage of her. Once back in the meeting, House boasts that he had sex with Cuddy
so everyone figures he’s joking. House suggests they provoke a seizure and locate the focus via
EKG, then orders them to search Stewart’a apartment.
Cameron takes the team to Stewart’s house but he only lets one person come in to provoke a
seizure while the others search the house for toxins. Cameron prepares to provoke a seizure and
Stewart asks for a second. He recognizes her from the outreach program and when she tries to
sympathize, he says he has everything he wants in the house and she doesn’t know him.
Wilson comes to see House and figures out he actually did have sex with Cuddy. House plans
to ignore her and is busy itching a mosquito bite. Wilson wonders why House hid it from him
but House interrupts to take a call from the team, who have found nothing and haven’t set
off a seizure. As he lances the mosquito bite, House is interested in discussing Cameron and
Chase’s love life and the fact they’re not engaged and only meet at Chase’s place. When House
determines that Stewart seized in the hallway, he decides to bring the outside to Stewart. House
arrives with some patients from the ER looking for a house, and finds that only Taub is there.
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House notes that he shouldn’t be there and takes the patients in to inspect the bedroom. Stewart
feels stomach pains but the readings show it isn’t a seizure.
The team runs a differential and finds a partial small bowel obstruction. They need to do
exploratory surgery for a biopsy of Stewart’s bowels but Stewart ordered them out. House warns
Stewart that he has a blockage that could rupture his intestines but Stewart refuses to go outside. House compromises and suggests Chase come to the home to operate. Outside, Cameron
objects and House explains they’ll have Chase come to operate, administer anesthesia, and then
they’ll take him to the hospital. Cameron thinks it’s immoral but eventually gives in. Chase arrives and as they begin the operation, Stewart says Cameron is a good person. As soon as Stewart
is out, they take him to the hospital.
Wilson meets with Cuddy in the cafeteria and she quickly admits she kissed House. She
insists they’re just friends and Wilson wonders why she doesn’t get involved with House. Cuddy
has given a lot of thought to the fact they’d eventually turn on each other and it would end badly.
He notes that might not necessarily be bad. Cuddy says she’ll be more careful and gets a pager
beep.
Cameron and Chase are bringing Stewart in and Cameron suggests they go to her place
and he stay over. Chase is puzzled, but Cuddy catches them, aware that they took the surgical
equipment. She brings them in and House is curiously passive as Cuddy notes it’s setting them
up for a lawsuit. House notes he doesn’t care what happens as long as Stewart gets post-op. As
they leave, Cuddy notes that House’s hand is bleeding from the mosquito bite but he disregards
it. Meanwhile, Cameron wakes up Stewart so he doesn’t have a shock later. He panics and rips
out the IV and starts bleeding from the neck. Chase returns and manages to get the bleeding
stopped.
Stewart calls his lawyer and forces them to release him, and the lawyer now holds the health
care proxy and they still don’t have a diagnosis. Cameron insists she made the right call but
Cuddy takes them all off the case. Cameron wonders why House didn’t object but he figures
it’s easier to ignore her and orders treatment for the blockage. Chase wonders why Cameron is
pursuing the case when they’ve been taken off of it, and why she’s trying to get involved with
House’s team again. She pointedly notes that she quit: Chase was fired.
Cameron goes to Stewart’s house and apologizes, then convinces him to let her in. meanwhile,
Wilson talks to House and says that things are different between House and Cuddy now that
they’ve kissed. Wilson figures House is scared but House wonders why Wilson is so worked up
about it. Wilson suggests that House should date her but House figure Wilson is trying to live
vicariously through him and wants to make House miserable because Wilson is miserable.
Cameron reports the drugs aren’t working and suggests they do the surgery at Stewart’s home
for real. They need a surgeon and Chase won’t go near it, so House asks Taub to do it and they
begin with Kutner assisting. They remove the bowel for biopsy and determine he has Whipple’s
Disease. As they prepare to cauterize a bleeder, they ignite gas buildup from the blockage. They
put out the fire and put Stewart on antibiotics for the Whipple’s.
As Cameron goes over the case at Stewart’s house, Chase brings her coffee and suggests he
stay at her place. She says he can’t because she’s working on Stewart’s case. Before they can
pursue the matter, Cameron is called to Stewart’s bedroom: he says his legs are numb.
The paralysis eliminates Whipple’s as a diagnosis and Foreman concludes he has Celiac and
isn’t absorbing nutrients. House tells them to force-feed Stewart wheat. The process is painful,
and Cameron believes House ordered it to force Stewart to change his mind and come to the
hospital. She says they can do a painless blood test but Foreman notes force-feeding is valid and
they go ahead with both tests.
Wilson visits Cuddy and admits he has feelings for her. She agrees and offers to have dinner, and then suggests they just have sex in front of House’s office. She figures that Wilson is
trying to make House jealous so he’ll have a relationship with Cuddy. She thanks him for the
attempts. . . and tells him he’s an idiot.
Cameron suggests that Stewart has post-traumatic stress disorder and he says he’s had it
ever since he’s been a child. The only thing that led him to go outside was meeting his girlfriend
Angela.
House goes to see Taub as he runs the blood tests, and dumps out the blood. Taub figure
House wants him to slow down the test and the increased pain will force Stewart to come to the
hospital. He tells Taub to restock Stewart’s morphine with saline. When Taub wonders why he’d
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do that, House says his wedding is on the rocks, which is why he’s putting in the extra time.
Taub says he’s sleeping on the couch but will do it anyway.
At home, House sets up a propane tank to emit gas and smoke out the mosquito. The mosquito
lands and House tries to hit it, knocking the tubing loose. He chases it into the kitchen where
it lands on the stove. He tries to hit it again and turns on the flames. The propane tank explodes. . . and House wakes up from his dream. He goes to see Wilson, who thinks that House
is imagining things and he itches his hand when he thinks of Cuddy. He suggests that House
is afraid to try a relationship but House insists he isn’t rationalizing. He goes to visit Stewart
for another check and Stewart’s heart stops. House calls the lawyer to inform him they have a
medical emergency and they need permission to take Stewart to the hospital. The lawyer agrees
but Cameron revives Stewart and tells House to cancel the ambulance.
Taub puts in a temporary pacemaker to stabilize Stewart’s heartbeat but it’s a temporary
measure. House believes it’s a poison and when the team says the house is clean, he asks
Stewart how often he washes the tub, and if it’s with bleach and ammonia. House figures the
combination of chemicals make chlorine gas, and Stewart weight loss from stress is reducing the
amount of fat to absorb the gas, causing his illness.
Cameron goes to Chase to see if he’ll put in a permanent pacemaker at Stewart’s home, but
he refuses. He knew she knew he’d say no and asks what’s wrong between them. When she
refuses to discuss it, he says that he has them stay at his house because he can tell she doesn’t
want him at her place. She kicks him out every morning and never offers him a drawer or closet
space. He knows she’s reluctant to get involved because of her husband but won’t chase after
her forever.
Cameron calls House to inform him that Stewart’s signs are dropping. He tells Cameron to
call Taub to get some morphine there, but Cameron realized House switched the morphine for
saline and gave Stewart morphine. When House realizes Stewart was having abdominal pain
even on the morphine, he checks the blockage on the x-rays. He goes to Stewart’s house and
shows her the x-rays, which show a bone mass that is actually lead. House opens up Stewart
and reveals several pieces of lead. The hollow point bullets the mugger used hollow-point bullets
and fragments lodged in Stewart’s hip bone. They finally started to dissolve, causing all the
symptoms. Cameron wonders if the lead poisoning caused the agoraphobia, but Stewart insists
that he’s fine and doesn’t need to change. Cameron wants his life to be better but House says
that Stewart is lying and he’s not happy. The rose petals in the hallway, Stewart dropped them
as eh was preparing to go to his girlfriend’s grave on her birthday. House tells Stewart to do
something but don’t believe his rationalizations.
Cameron confronts Chase and admits he was right, and that her husband’s memory is still
affecting him. She tells him she’s cleaned out a drawer for him. They go to her apartment.
House is playing the guitar at home when he finally sees the mosquito. He prepares to smash
it but then blows it away and decides to set aside his own rationalizations. He goes to Cuddy’s
house.
Stewart braces himself. . . and steps out of his house.
Taub’s wife goes to him and they hug.
House looks at Cuddy from outside. She doesn’t notice him. He considers for a few moments,
then turns and leaves.
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Emancipation
Season 5
Episode Number: 94
Season Episode: 8
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Pamela Davis, Leonard Dick
James Hayman
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson)
Chrissie Fit (Girl), Emily Rios (Sophia), Nathan Gamble (Evan), Liza
Colon-Zayas (Maria), Alexandra Lydon (Melinda), Kyle Silverstein
(Jonah), Bob McCracken (Doug), Al Coronel (Ray), Dawn Frances
(Nurse), Jose Chavez (Sophia’s Dad), Yolanda Rubio-Soto (Sophia’s
Mom)
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While Foreman takes on a pediatric case on his own, the rest of the
team deals with a 16-year-old factory manager and emancipated minor
who collapses at work. When Foreman’s patient takes a turn for the
worse, he’s forced to question whether he can deal with the situation
on his own, or if he needs House’s help.
Workers at a factory are discussing
their relationship when their co-worker
arrives: Sophia, a 16-year old. As she
talks to the guy, Doug, Sophia clutches
at her chest and falls onto the conveyer
belt heading toward the press. They stop
it just in time as she starts coughing up
blood.
House comes into work and Wilson
concludes that he didn’t ask Cuddy out.
When Wilson doesn’t comment, House suspects something is up. The team takes on the case and
Kutner explains that Sophia is an emancipated minor working at the factory Foreman suggests
Sophia is pregnant. Kutner doesn’t believe it, or that she’s taking drugs as Thirteen suggest.
House orders Kutner and Foreman to do an echo and Foreman asks to be let go temporarily to
do clinical trials. House refuses to let him, claiming that he might need him.
Kutner gives the echo test to Sophia and tries to let her know that he understands. She isn’t
impressed but he notes that his parents died when he was six and he knows how she feels.
Taub and Thirteen go over Sophia apartment and find a bong. Thirteen is skeptical of Kutner’s
trusting nature and Taub insists that some trust is necessary. Kutner suggests that Sophia needs
steroids for vasculitis but House tells Foreman to put her on beta- blockers. Foreman tells the
rest of the team to take care of it and leaves. Kutner administers the beta-blockers and Sophia
claims the bong belonged to her ex. She admits they have no reason to trust her, and Kutner
suggests she has vasculitis, but if she’s using drugs the steroids could kill her. She insists she
hasn’t used drugs and Kutner goes to get the steroids.
Foreman goes to the clinic and Cuddy arrives to ask why he’s there. She’s not interested in
overriding House and wonders if he’s trying to prove something. Foreman checks out a young kid,
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Jonah, who is suffering from bloody vomit and diarrhea. His older brother Evan is surprisingly
knowledgeable about medical procedure and thoughtful of his brother. Meanwhile, Sophia has a
psychotic break and they sedate her, and Kutner admits that he gave her steroids.
The team stabilizes her and House blames Foreman for leaving it up to Kutner. Foreman
suggests prinzmetal angina that caused an artery in the brain to spasm, and House reluctantly
agrees, but orders Foreman to trigger an artery spasm. Foreman tells the team to set it up and
page him when they’re ready to actually run the procedure. He returns to check on Jonah and
has him swallow a camera. Evan convinces him to do it and Foreman notes that he didn’t treat
his younger brother that nicely. Jonah starts giggling uncontrollably and Foreman has no idea
why. He talks to Cameron and Chase and asks for a differential but Chase isn’t interested. He
informs them it isn’t House’s case and they decide to look at it, but Chase warns it won’t be
enough to prove anything. Foreman is called away as Kutner begins the procedure and talks
about her parents being dead. Sophia’s arteries are fine but he’s able to tell from the blood flow
that she’s lying. Kutner is angry at her but she says she told the truth about not using drugs but
lied about her parents because her father raped her and her mother didn’t do anything about it.
Back in differential, House notes that the rape has nothing to do with the symptoms and
therefore isn’t of interest to them. Kutner suggests she might by lying about the rape and House
notes that she might be suffering from emotional stress, explaining the symptoms. House orders
them to give her anti-anxiety drugs and to make sure Foreman did it.
House talks with Wilson and explains what happened but Wilson isn’t interested in giving
opinions or insights. House is less than thrilled. Meanwhile, Chase and Cameron give a differential to Foreman but can’t come up with anything major, while Cameron notes that Foreman
needs to focus on one case or the other. He ropes them into testing Jonah and goes to see Sophia
where Thirteen is giving her the treatment. She apologizes and Thirteen suggests she file a police
report on the rape. Sophia refuses, saying she doesn’t want to be labeled. However, Foreman
realizes the drugs aren’t helping: her urine has turned brown.
Back in differential, they wonder if the shredded red cells indicate an infection, but it doesn’t
correspond with her previous symptoms. House wonders about Sophia’s homemade furniture
and Thirteen says that there were holes, indicating they were pressure treated. Sawing the lumber would have released arson into the air, and Foreman suggests they test her hair as it wouldn’t
show in a bloodtest. He gets a page and leaves, raising House’s suspicions. Foreman meets with
Chase and Cameron, who reveal they haven’t found anything. Chase says that he needs more
help then they can provide but Foreman doesn’t think they’re at that point yet. Jonah goes into
cardiac arrest and they’re forced to revive him. Chase tells him they’re at the point.
Thirteen removes the arsenic from Sophia’s body with chelation and says she’s free to go in
the morning. Sophia wonders why she doesn’t give her any advice. She finally gives in and asks
Thirteen for her opinion, and Thirteen says that she’s strong and can handle things. Sophia has
a seizure and House concludes that the arsenic was fighting what is killing Sophia and tells
them to put it back in. They figure it’s acute leukemia but arsenic won’t cure it: she needs a bone
marrow donor. Foreman comes in and House knows about Jonah. Foreman said that Jonah
needs House but House isn’t interested. He tells Foreman that he wanted the case for himself, so
now he has it. House confronts Wilson and figures that he’s not doing anything to force House
to deal with it. Wilson simply shrugs and agrees and goes on his way.
As they conduct a biopsy, Thirteen tells Sophia that the odds of her finding a suitable donor
are better if she goes to her parents. Sophia would prefer to die then involve them in her life. Taub
lies and says he has Huntington’s, and says he’d do anything to stop it so he can make his life
matter. Sophia asks if he’s been raped and when he says no, she tells him he can’t understand
what she’s going through. Thirteen is angry that Taub lied to Sophia using her disease, and Taub
points out Thirteen never relates to Sophia personally. Thirteen angrily insists that they contact
her parents even though Sophia doesn’t want to, but House refuses. She says she plans to find
Sophia’s parents.
Cameron and Chase meet with Foreman and Foreman points out that Foreman has got what
he wished for. Chase wonders if the mother or brother are involved. Foreman notes Jonah shares
everything with his brother and gets an idea.
Thirteen goes to talk to Sophia’s parents to test their suitability as bone marrow donors only to
discover that their daughter Sophia is living with them. . . and it’s a totally different girl. Thirteen
confronts Sophia, saying she stole Sophia’s identity. Sophia admits she did it to protect herself
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from her real parents and asks Thirteen to pretend she didn’t find the girl. Thirteen tells her
to call the parents so they determine their donor suitability, but Sophia refuses and notes that
when she gets sick enough, they’ll have to give her the transplant without parental consent.
Foreman has realized Jonah is suffering from an iron overdose: Evan gave his vitamins to
Jonah. Evan is sorry but Foreman assures him that Jonah will get better and forgive him.
House arrives at work the next morning and the team has a partial match, but a partial could
make it impossible for Sophia to receive a second donation if the first one fails. House tells them
to treat Sophia no matter what. They note that she was rational first rather than emotional and
House notes that it’s unusual and wonders if she lied because something worse happened then
rape. He goes to see Sophia and asks her what happened. He asks why she doesn’t want pity
and she insists she wants to be normal. He realizes she did something that makes her not want
to live and asks what she did. Sophia refuses to answer, saying her parents won’t care. When
House snaps at her, she finally admits she killed her brother: he drowned in the bath when she
was watching him. House tells her that if she dies by refusing treatment her parents will hate
her for sure and there’s one thing she can do to keep it from getting worse.
Sophia’s parents come in to help her. Jonah and Evan leave with their mother, who hugs
Foreman as she leaves. Kutner looks on as Sophia is reunited with her parents and breaks down
crying.
Foreman confronts House and says he’s going to do clinical trials, having proven he can
handle two cases. House easily gives in and Foreman wonders why: House notes that before
Foreman asked him, and this time he told House he was going to do it. As House gets in the
elevator, Wilson gets in and finally says it was a nice thing he did for Foreman. Wilson explains
that House needed to prove to Foreman he could handle it, but House points out it doesn’t work
the same for him. They see Cuddy as they’re going out and House isn’t interested in talking about
her. Wilson says that he’ll be okay.
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Last Resort
Season 5
Episode Number: 95
Season Episode: 9
Originally aired:
Writer:
Director:
Show Stars:
Recurring Role:
Guest Stars:
Summary:
Matthew V. Lewis, Eli Attie, Matthew V. Lewis
Katie Jacobs
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James
Wilson)
Wood Harris (Bowman), Tracy Vilar (Nurse Regina), Evan Peters
(Oliver), Evan Jones (Bill), Marcus Chait (Mitch), Alex Sol (Larry),
Sarah Thompson (Nikki), Natasha Gregson Wagner (Sandra), Zeljko
Ivanek (Jason), Jack Guzman (Security Guard #1)
A man takes over Cuddy’s office and holds House, Thirteen, and several patients hostage. His demand? A diagnosis. The man forces Thirteen to act as a guinea pig for his treatments and House has to end
the standoff before a SWAT team opens fire.
At the clinic, a variety of patients are
waiting for treatment. One man, Larry,
wants migraine treatment but Thirteen
tells him it’s not an emergency and he can
wait. Foreman approaches her and asks if
she wants to participate in his drug tests
for potential Huntington’s cures. She tells
him she isn’t interested and admits she
isn’t doing anything to treat it.
One man, Jason, notices Cuddy’s office and sees House inside. He goes in to ask for Dr. Cuddy. House is going through Cuddy’s
desk and tells him to leave. Jason goes out and takes out a gun. A minute later, House looks
up as Jason ushers Thirteen, one nurse, and several patients into the office. Jason demands the
best doctor in the hospital or he’s going to start killing people.
Jason forces his hostages to barricade the room and draw the blinds. House refuses to back
down and notes that taking hostages is unlikely to go well. Jason has his medical files and says
he can’t breathe, he’s tired, he gets skin rashes, palpitations, and insomnia. House wonders if
Jason is having marital problems but Jason says he’s never been married. House then tries to
borrow a match to administer a breath test. House warns Thirteen not to go through Cuddy’s
desk and one kid, Oliver, provides a lighter. Jason is unable to blow it out held at arm’s length.
House concludes he has pulmonary scleroderma, and an alkylating agent will solve it. House
calls out to ask for propofol to test for scleroderma and Jason demands that Cuddy bring it
in, recognizing her from her photo. Cuddy brings in the syringe but Jason tells him to give it
someone else. House notes that everyone else is ill but Jason notes that Larry isn’t on painkillers. Larry suggests Jason give the first dose to Thirteen and House notes she’s sick. House
gives the injection to Larry and nothing happens. However, when House goes to give it to Jason,
Larry passes out despite his larger body mass. Jason prepares to shoot House but House warns
that Jason needs him. Jason shoots another patient, Mitch, in the leg instead.
Lt. Bowman of Princeton SWAT arrives and takes command. Cameron, Chase, and House’s
team are working with the patients when House calls them for a differential. He relates Jason’s
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symptoms but a disgusted Chase refuses to participate and walks out. The team comes up with
various possibilities but they need to test. House has Foreman and Cameron run tests while
Taub and Kutner check Jason’s apartment for neurotoxins. When Jason gives out his address,
House realizes that Jason has an escape plan. House calls and talks to Bowman to get someone
to pick up Jason’s blood samples. Jason notices someone outside by the blinds and orders
everyone back when he sees SWAT officers outside. House notices that only Jason heard the
men, indicating hyperacusus, which indicates nerve damage. He has Jason puff out his cheeks
demonstrating left-side nerve weakness, indicating post-herpetic neuralgia. There’s a dangerous
and painful test that only hurts if the diagnosis is wrong but Jason demands proof and agrees
to it. Bowman gets two hostages in return for the medication but is reluctant to send Cuddy in.
Cuddy instantly agrees and Bowman wonders if she has a stake in it. Cuddy insists she’s okay.
A teenager, Oliver, volunteers to take the shot even though it could cause muscle and nerve
damage. House does a quick test and the husband of a pregnant woman, Bill, ends up last. He
refuses to take the shot and Thirteen volunteers. House isn’t thrilled, noting it’s her Huntington’s
speaking, but she insists and collapses in pain. House then gives Jason the shot while wondering why he’s so desperate to find a cure that he takes hostages. Jason suffers the same pain,
indicating he doesn’t have neuralgia.
Taub and Kutner check Jason’s house and Kutner finds a photo of Jason with his mother.
Foreman tests and determines there’s no blood infection. They’re left with a heart condition or
cancer. Kutner notes that the photo of Jason’s mother suggests either an upper- lobe tumor
or adrenal problem. Thirteen notices that Jason has a distended jugular, indicating a heart
problem. Jason’s pulse is racing and Thirteen says they need paddles. House prepares to do a
carotid massage but Jason refuse to let House gets that close, since the paddles will cause his
trigger finger to spasm. Thirteen suggests they cardiovert chemically and goes to get the drugs,
and House notes Jason can shoot someone else if Thirteen doesn’t come back. Jason grabs
Oliver and gives Thirteen 30 seconds. House and the hospital nurse, Regina, wonder if Thirteen
will come back. Time runs out and Jason prepares to shoot Oliver, but Regina volunteers. He
prepares to shoot her and she says Jason needs more time. Thirteen comes just in time but
Jason insists that Thirteen take the first dose. House warns it will stop her heart to lethal levels
but Thirteen gives herself the injection and collapses. Jason takes the show and House notices
he’s only sweating on one side of his face: a tumor is pressing on his sympathetic nerves. House
concludes he has lung cancer.
House calls Wilson for a consult and they check his throat. Jason displays dry throat, indicating cancer, but he insists on a CRT scan. Jason releases two more hostages in return for a
trip to Radiology, then ties Bill, Oliver, Regina, House, and Thirteen around himself and edges
to the elevator. Housie still wants to know what drove Jason to get a gun and suggests it was
the humiliation of being poked and prodded by doctors. Jason insists that he simply wants an
answer.
They get to Radiology and House runs the scan, while insisting there has to be a deeper
reason than curiosity. Jason insists it’s his life and his body, and there’s a truth he’d rather
know even if he has to rot in jail. House stops the scan and writes down the problem, then has
Thirteen explain to prove they both know the problem and didn’t pre-plan things. The scan has a
starburst artifact: the metal is messing up the scan. House tells him he’ll have to give up the gun
to get is scan. Jason threatens him with the gun, and Nurse Regina and Bill run out, explaining
that Jason gave up the gun.
House runs the scan and ignores the phone, while Oliver watches. He admits he’s curious and
it should be safe now. House goes over the scan, ignoring Cuddy and Bowman’s attempts to call
him, and he’s forced to reveal there’s no tumor. Jason thanks him but House, curious himself,
gives the gun back to Jason to maintain the situation and get the answer.
House finally answers the phone and tells them Jason got the gun back. Thirteen accuses
House of being a coward for refusing to accept he can’t find the answer, but he accuses her of
being a coward for giving up on living. Oliver wants to go but House says they might need him.
Outside, Bowman wonders if House is lying but Cuddy disagrees. Bowman starts to set things
up for an assault.
House calls the team again and Foreman walks off, realizing Chase was right. The team toss
out possibilities and House notices that Jason is now losing hearing in his right ear. Cushing’s
Syndrome accounts for all the symptoms, even the risk-taking. House calls Cuddy requesting a
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drug to provoke a respiratory reaction to confirm Cushing’s. Bowman refuses to negotiate but
Jason releases Oliver and agrees not to test the drugs on Thirteen. Oliver gets out and Cuddy
delivers the drugs over. Jason tells House to give it to Thirteen, and admits that he lied to
Bowman. He believes that Bowman might have slipped in fake drugs even if House wouldn’t.
Thirteen injects herself before House can object. Jason asks her how long she has to live and she
admits there is no cure. Convinced, Jason takes the injection and admits that at least there was
an upside to his risks: she isn’t gaining anything. Jason’s breathing doesn’t change but Thirteen
collapses as her kidneys shut down.
House calls his team and Cameron suggests that the various medications Jason has received
may be protecting his kidneys. House slaps Jason and spots a twitch, indicating a calcium
deficiency. Drugs that cause calcium deficiency also protect the kidneys. House tries to add
up all the symptoms and Cameron suggests it’s meliodosis. The disease requires exposure in
a tropical environmental and the history doesn’t indicate that. . . until Jason admits he’s been
to Florida. House has the disease but Bowman refuses to give them the cure. Jason offers to
release House as a hostage and House realizes Jason plans to give the drug to Thirteen. House
volunteers but Jason points out that Thirteen is the one on the same drugs he’s been taking.
Thirteen tells House to go: either way she’ll die.
House walks outside while Thirteen wonders if Jason will feel bad about killing him. He says
that she wants to kill herself but needs someone else to do it for her. The SWAT teams move
in and plant a frame charge on the wall. Thirteen tries to inject herself but hesitates, saying he
has to trust people. Jason prepares to shoot her and Thirteen tries to inject herself. . . and stops,
saying she doesn’t want to die. Jason grabs the syringe and injects himself, and the SWAT team
blasts themselves in, knocking Jason and Thirteen to the floor. The police haul Jason away and
House wonders why Thirteen is still alive. She explains that Jason spared her, and outside Jason
and House exchange a look of understanding.
Thirteen begins a one-week regimen of temporary dialysis and Foreman apologizes for leaving
the diagnosis. She asks if she can participate in the drug trial.
Cuddy surveys her devastated office when House comes in. He explains the test confirmed
meliodosis and she snaps at him, wondering if that’s all he cares about. He points out that
Jason would have been dead if they hadn’t, and she helped him. She wonders if she screwed
up because of their non-relationship, and he notes that the only change would be to have a
relationship. She wonders if he wants a relationship and he denies it, saying he was just trying
to follow her logic. As he leaves, she pulls out the desk drawer and it breaks off: House’s prank
from earlier finally goes off.
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Let Them Eat Cake
Season 5
Episode Number: 96
Season Episode: 10
Originally aired:
Writer:
Director:
Show Stars:
Recurring Role:
Guest Stars:
Summary:
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Garrett LernerRussel Friend
Deran Sarafian
Robert Chase)
Samantha Shelton (Emmy), Becky Baeling (Deedee), Brad Grunberg
(Irv), Lori Petty (Janice), David Lengel (Video Director), Nicole Cannon
(Nurse Helen), Christopher Stapleton (John Hadley), Julia Putnam (9
Year Old Thirteen), Danielle Petty (Anne Hadley)
The team take on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet
who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts
Huntington’s Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject,
Cuddy is forced to move into House’s office, and Kutner uses House’s
name to run an online medical-advice website.
Fitness guru Emmy is filming a commercial at a stadium while her overweight
clients exercise behind her. One of them
collapses and Emmy helps him up and
tells the other s to keep running. She insists on exercising with them so it looks
real. She runs with the man up to the
top. . . and then collapse, falling down and
breaking her ankle.
Cuddy catches House in the elevator
and gives him the case, and informs him that she’ll be sharing his office since the recent hostage
situation destroyed it. House meets with Kutner and Taub, since Foreman and Thirteen are in the
clinical trials. Kutner is familiar with Emmy and suggests allergies. Cuddy, in the office, points
out the flaw in that differential and suggests that cold air and exercise is setting off asthma.
House notes that there’s no high blood pressure and gets Taub and Kutner out. . . and tells them
to check Emmy for asthma by recreating the conditions of how the attack occurred.
As Thirteen waits for the clinical tries in the waiting room, she sees a female patient with
advanced Huntington’s, and remembers her mother having the disease when she was a child.
Taub and Kutner take Emmy to the refrigerated morgue and have her exercise. She insists on
exercising and Taub wonders if she ever indulges. She says she never does. . . and then collapses.
Foreman conducts tap testing on Thirteen, who insists on talking about how she shouldn’t
be there when there are others. Foreman insists she’s just there because she has Huntington,
and tests again after telling her not to talk. She keeps talking and he finally confirms that she’s
suffering nerve degeneration.
Cuddy is playing with House’s ball, irritating him, and he says they should split the desk.
She readily agrees and he warns her that being nice won’t work. Taub and Kutner report about
Emmy’s new condition and that her heart stopped. Asthma isn’t responsible for her symptoms.
Kutner suggests a carcinoid tumor strangling her system and House tells them to find it and cut
it out.
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As Kutner and Taub scan Emmy, Kutner asks for Taub’s input on a leaking breast implant
that might cause join pains. Kutner explains that he’s set up a web site that provides medical
advice and second opinions. Taub wonders if Kutner wouldn’t mind if he told House, and Kutner
admits he set it up in House’s name. Taub threatens to tell House unless he gets a 30% cut.
They’re interrupted when they discover that Emmy has a shrunken stomach: she’s had stomach
stapling.
House finds an old photo of Emmy showing she was fat, and then had the photos pulled from
her records. Their conversation interrupts Cuddy, who is on the phone. House tells them to treat
her like a fat girl and Kutner wonders if she had Type 2 diabetes. House tries to embarrass Cuddy
on the phone but she refuses to flinch and takes the call outside. Kutner suggest sleep apnea
that cut off the trachea and House insists it isn’t apnea. He goes to where Foreman is conducting
private tests with Thirteen. Thirteen is seemingly eager for the distraction and suggests side
effects from the gastric bypass, leading to low potassium. House notes her potassium is fine
but Kutner suggest that the bypass could have created a closed loop of intestines that caused
bacteria, leading to sepo. House tells him to check her feces. Foreman points out they could have
done the diagnosis anywhere but House says that it helped.
Taub explains the procedure and notes that Emmy is a hypocrite for not using the procedures
she sells to her clients. She defends herself, saying she doesn’t tell them to get surgery and she
tried everything else she could but only gastric bypass surgery worked, and then she was happy.
Taub wonders if she really is healthy and says that if she is, it’s because she’s pretty.
Wilson talks to Cuddy who defends her decision to share Cuddy’s office. However, he accuses
her of taking House’s office just to be close to House. She orders him out.
As Kutner and Taub test Emmy’s feces, Kutner says that Deedee, the person with the breast
implants, is going to complain to the licensing board if he doesn’t come up with an answer.
House comes in, just missing the conversation, and tosses the sample in water to see if it floats.
The lack of flotation means no sepo and the possibility of apnea. He tells them to watch Emmy
overnight. As Kutner and Taub argue, they miss her getting up and going to the exercise room.
She’s running on a treadmill and says she feels great. She doesn’t feel any pain from her broken
ankle, or notice the bleeding. Taub pricks her with a syringe and she doesn’t feel that either.
It’s back to differential as Kutner and Taub confirm that the EEG eliminates the apnea diagnosis. They return to House’s office only to discover that Cuddy has ”accidentally” spilled hydrogen
sulfide, stinking up the place. She leaves for the night and wishes them well as they have to stay
there all night to deal with the patient. They move to the hallway but Foreman is called away.
Thirteen tells him to wait and he notes she missed the last session. She says she’ll be along,
then suggest MS. House notes there are any number of possibilities involving her nerves and
they need to run a NCV test to determine where the problem is.
Taub administers the NCV test and says he isn’t interested in Emmy’s rationalizations. She
admits that if she was honest about the bypass surgery, no one would believe her but she wants
to help people. She asks if he’s done anything hypocritical and when she sees that her comment
scores, says that he probably had good reasons too. She tries to lift her arm but is unable to do
so, meaning the problem is with her muscles, not her nerves, and the NCV test is unnecessary.
Foreman goes to the waiting room but Thirteen isn’t there.
Kutner and Taub are in the elevator discussing the case while a woman with tattoos and
piercing stands behind them. She tells them she’s going to see House and she’s been e-mailing
with him about her breast implants. Now she’s losing her hair. They quickly close the elevator
doors before House sees her and get her to the ER. Taub figures she has a staph infection from
the piercings and tattoos. They go back to see House, who wonders why they took so long. Kutner
suggests that House give up the office but he goes in and smashes Cuddy’s new toilet. He then
suggests chelation treatment for whatever toxins Emmy may have.
Thirteen arrives home to find Foreman waiting for her. He admits that she thought she was
becoming self-destructive again, but only confirmed that she’s been following all of his instructions. He asks why she can’t show up for appointments and she says that she came down but
there was another patient, Janice, in the waiting room. She doesn’t want a visual reminder of
what she’ll eventually be going through. Foreman tells her either to show up or not to show up
at all. As he goes, Thirteen remembers back to when she was a child when her father said her
mother was leaving but Thirteen refused to leave her room.
The team meets on the stairs for a new differential once the chelation doesn’t work. When
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Taub wonders why they’re not meeting in House’s office, he notes that Cuddy responded to
his action by taking out all of the furniture. He’s also interested that Thirteen is leaning away
from Foreman. Foreman insists everything is fine and suggests Austrian’s syndrome from alcoholism. House notes that Emmy doesn’t drink and the tox screen didn’t show alcohol anyway.
First Kutner and then Taub get a page and both claim the call isn’t important. Taub suggests
Guillain-Barre, which leads from muscle weakness to total paralysis. House orders plasmapheresis treatment.
Taub and Kutner finally respond to their page and discover that Deedee is uncontrollably
singing. Cameron tells them to bring in House because she must have a rare brain disorder.
When she notes that Deedee is bleeding from the ears, she tells them to get House.
Taub explains to Emmy that she has Guillain-Barre and refuses to let her take a wheelchair
when she’s still strong enough to walk.
Kutner meets with Cameron and Chase in the cafeteria and tries to get some input. He finally
comes up with a bilary tumor causing pareneoplasic syndrome and Chase agrees. He also agrees
to test for it. . . as long as Kutner pays him 25% of his website earnings.
House is planning out his strategy to get back at Cuddy by replacing her toilet with a bidet.
Wilson points out that the renovations will take longer, meaning Cuddy will be in House’s office
longer. He tells House to just ask Cuddy out.
Emmy starts hallucinating, believing her patients have come to visit and sit on her now that
they know she’s lying to them. House goes to his office, now empty of furniture, for a new
differential given the new symptoms. Thirteen leaves for her appointment, suggesting it’s CNS
lymphoma. Taub suggests a prion disease but House notes if that’s the case there’s not much
they can do. House orders a brain biopsy but Cuddy overrides him, suggesting they test for CNS
lymphoma non-invasively first. He orders Kutner and Taub to run the non-invasive tests and then
confronts her, saying she’s overriding him because she has the hots for him. She accuses him of
having the hots for him. She says that they’re supposed to kiss now, but he points out they’ve
already done that. Instead he grabs her breast. She admits she’s an idiot for being surprised and
walks off.
Thirteen arrives at the waiting room and sees Janice. Foreman says he can’t reschedule and
Thirteen might as well get to know her. As Thirteen looks at Janice, she remembers being in her
bedroom as a child and watching her father take away her father. She then goes over and meets
with Janice.
Taub has eliminated CNS lymphoma and Emmy asks to stop by the cafeteria for chocolate
cake. He tells her not to give up and she wonders what they’re hoping for. He admits that prion
disease is next on the list and that it’s bad. She says she might as well have a piece of cake and
he agrees.
Later, Taub goes to House’s office and tells him that Emmy tested negative for CNS lymphoma.
He notices that the furniture has been returned. House asks Taub about his affair and if he was
happy during it. Taub admits that superficially he was but deep down he was miserable. House
notes he wasn’t miserable, because he rationalized getting something for giving something. Taub,
bemused, goes to get Cuddy’s permission for the brain biopsy. House interrupts him, saying he’ll
do it himself. They go to Emmy’s room and find her exercising.
With the new ”symptom,” it’s back to differential and House doesn’t believe someone could
get better. Taub says the last thing he did was administer a MRI and then they went to the
cafeteria for chocolate cake. House notes he’s an idiot and takes a chocolate cake to Emmy.
She’s feeling worse again and serves her a piece of cake. House explains that she has hereditary
coproporphyria which causes a lack of a vital enzyme to the liver. The treatment is a highcarb diet and sugar. Once they reverse the bypass surgery and she fattens up, she’ll be fine.
Emmy wonders if there’s anything else they can try and Taub says there’s a drug that manages
the symptoms. She agrees to the drugs and refuses the surgery. House understands that she’s
rather be pretty than healthy.
Taub admits to Kutner that he’s disappointed that Emmy is just as superficial as most other
people. They go to see Deedee and a nurse informs them that she died and was moved before
they could be reached.
Cuddy returns to her newly renovated office with Wilson, talking about how House isn’t capable of intimacy. She sees her desk and realizes it’s not the desk she ordered, but her desk from
med school that she had in storage. She thinks about it and realizes who put it in there.
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Thirteen admits to Foreman that she lied to him: Janice reminds Thirteen of her past, not
her present. She admits that she wanted her mother to die after she lost her facilities in the last
stages of Huntington’s and yelled constantly at her. She never said goodbye to her mother, who
died with Thirteen hating her. Foreman hugs her.
Kutner and Taub go to the morgue and Kutner berates himself for not taking more time.
House arrives and says he’s going to kill them, accusing them of being frauds and idiots who got
a woman killed. He says that Deedee could have been treated and then wonders if it’s not too
late. He climbs up on her and applies CPR, and she comes back to life. Kutner and Taub jump
back in terror. . . and House and Deedee burst out laughing. House set the whole thing up, and
hired Deedee for two days to pretend she was the client. Kutner offers to take the website down,
but House says to keep it up in return for 50% of the profits. As they go to work, Deedee points
out that House still has three hours left.
Cuddy goes to House’s office to thank him. . . and see him with Deedee. She turns around and
leaves
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Joy to the World
Season 5
Episode Number: 97
Season Episode: 11
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Tuesday December 9, 2008
Peter Blake (IV)
David Straiton
Robert Chase)
Kal Penn (Dr. Lawrence Kutner), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub),
B.K. Cannon (Natalie), Sherilyn Fenn (Mrs. Soellner), Bitsie Tulloch
(Whitney), Phyllis Lyons (Dr. Schmidt), Lucas Till (Simon), Michael
Leydon Campbell (Dr. Soellner), Meaghan Jette Martin (Sarah), Taylor Dooley (Rachelle), John Forrest (II) (Geoff), Alix Korey (Anna),
Lori Petty (Janice Burke), Christopher DeMaci (Squatter), Marissa Ingrasci (Woman), Ben Shields (Jonathan), Caitlin Gorfaine (Chorus #1),
Carmel Echols (Chorus #2), Dallas Wells (Chorus #3), Gary Leroi Gray
(Chorus #4), Christopher Ryan Johnson (Chorus #5)
HOU-511
House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her
school’s Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen grow
closer during the Huntington’s disease drug trials, House gives a patient a gift, the staff wonder who gave House a special gift, and Cuddy
gets an unexpected gift.
At a school academy Christmas
pageant, a group of older students are
planning to embarrass the teacher over
the reluctance of one girl, Natalie. Thy go
out on stage and start singing, and Natalie starts to get dizzy. She sings out the
teacher’s name when the others stop, and
then she collapses, vomiting.
Natalie goes to the clinic where Cuddy
turns the case over to House and his
team, saying that Natalie’s liver is failing. House notes Foreman’s vacation and that Cuddy keeps
coming to him. She says it isn’t and walks out. As they return to the case, Taub find a Christmas
present for House but House angrily throws it away even though it’s a valuable antique medical
text. He wonders if the other students pranked Natalie and slipped her something. Chase and
Kutner talk to the students and they eventually admit they slipped her some mushrooms. The
boy who supplied them, Simon, didn’t think they were dangerous but Chase notes that they can
be if not prepared properly.
Foreman is checking up on Thirteen, who asks him what happened with his patient Janice.
He says she dropped out of the trials but didn’t say why. He tells Thirteen that she’s improving
and as she goes, she leaves him a thank-you present for Christmas.
Kutner and Taub got the school to get the mushrooms and discuss what House is up to, and
figure it’s legitimate. They go through Natalie’s locker and find a bottle of painkillers. Cuddy asks
Natalie why she was taking so many painkillers. Cuddy admits she doesn’t have any kids and
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Natalie says she’s overweight and the other kids hate her. Cuddy tells her to forget them and then
talks to their parents, who insist Natalie didn’t take the pills. However, Mrs. Soellner admits that
Natalie has changed in the last year and finally agrees to have Cuddy give them the treatment
for an overdose of the painkillers.
Kutner and Taub go to Wilson and describe the present, and he recognizes it. He admits
it came from Irene Adler, a patient in 2001, who House saved after a desperate effort. . . then
admits he’s lying to them and he recognizes that it’s a present that he gave to House a year ago.
They’re called away when Natalie’s heart problems and high blood pressure. Cuddy goes over
the case with House and he points it out, but Taub admits they called her in because Foreman
is busy. They go back to differential but Taub goes along with House’s gag and suggests that
Cuddy gave him the present, and he thinks she loves him. House refuses to discuss it but Taub
plays along and tells House to tell Cuddy he loves her. House quickly figures out they’re on to
him, remembers that Natalie volunteers at a homeless shelter and orders Taub to do an anal
swabbing at the shelter.
House confronts Wilson, who wonders why House didn’t open his present. He also wonders
why House gave himself an imaginary present and figures the holidays are hard for House because he can’t have a meaningful relationship. House thinks Wilson is trying to goad him into
being nice to his patients, but Wilson says he isn’t and even if it was he wouldn’t worry. House
admits he needs to stop being a jerk. . . and steals Wilson’s ice cream.
Thirteen goes to see Janice and asks if she can help. Janice says that she told Foreman the
injections were making her ill and he told her to get over it. She refuses to be Foreman’s guinea
pig.
Taub meets with House and tells him a worker at the soup kitchen had tuberculosis and the
symptoms match with what Natalie has. House orders standard treatment and then goes into
the clinic for duty. He starts acting sympathetically with the first patient, Whitney, and realizes
she’s pregnant. Whitney wasn’t aware she was pregnant and House quickly loses his patience
when she claims she’s a virgin.
As Natalie undergoes treatment, she starts to spasm due to brain problems and Cuddy concludes it isn’t TB. House is back to differential and Cuddy is there again, and he wonders why.
Cuddy says she cares for Natalie and House wonders if she does so because of the baby she lost.
Kutner suggests a mold allergy to the mushrooms and House orders a prick test and anti-fungals.
Thirteen talks to Foreman about Janice and brings up the nausea. She suggests Foreman
apologize but when he refuses, she accuses him of acting like House. When Foreman stands by
his decision, she says he is House.
Whitney arrives with her fiancé Geoff and Whitney insists she didn’t have sex. Geoff demands
a paternity test and Whitney agrees to it. Meanwhile, Kutner and Taub give Natalie her test and
suggests she talk with them. She says she’s okay and works on her homework, noting that Simon
brought it. Kutner calls security to hold Simon and demands to know what he did. Taub pulls
him off and suggests Kutner is projecting his personal issues from being bullied in high school.
Simon says that they used to be friends but he stopped when people made fun of him. He says
that Natalie used to drink a lot ad he bought her alcohol with a fake ID until Natalie got her
own. Cuddy confronts Natalie and warns that they can’t get her on the transplant list if she’s
alcoholic. Natalie says she hasn’t drunk in six months and bought the bottles without opening
them, so she could still talk with Simon. Cuddy wonders why she stopped buying alcohol and
Natalie doesn’t have an answer. Cuddy explains that she initially didn’t want children because of
her screwed up relationships, but she changed as she got older.
House meets with Anna, a woman with asthma, and tries to be nice again. Anna demonstrates
how she uses her inhaler. . . by spraying it on the outside of her neck. Anna storms out a moment
later and Cuddy arrives to explain she thinks Natalie either wants to die or the attention that
comes with it. He proscribes benzos for the seizures which just happens to be the same treatment
for alcoholism. House then goes to see Whitney and Geoff and sees something shocking in the
paternity test. He tells them to stay and walks out.
Foreman asks his partner, Dr. Schmidt, about whether he should pursue the case with Janice.
She notes that they can’t view the patients as people, only numbers. Foreman explains that a
friend of his has the disease and she says she doesn’t want to know: they can’t afford to care and
the test is a double-blind. He’s not sure if he can be that detached but Schmidt says that’s why
she chose him: because he worked for House and she figured Foreman understood that.
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Natalie flat lines when her heart stops and Taub revives her. Meanwhile, House returns to
Jeff and Whitney and says that she didn’t cheat on Jeff. The baby only has Whitney’s DNA:
parthenogenesis in Whitney caused by a calcium spike lead to her pregnancy, even though there’s
never been a documented case. In seven months she’ll have a miracle birth.
Back in differential, House starts to explain about Whitney but Cuddy tells her they need to
put Natalie on a pacemaker. Alcoholism would cause a heart rate increase. There’s a high alk
phos rating, suggesting leukemia, and they take it to Wilson who confirms it’s possible. House
orders testing and Cuddy wonders why he doesn’t want to treat her. House wonders why she’s
so concerned and leaves it up to her. Wilson warns that there’s nothing they can do and even a
double transplant won’t save her. Cuddy orders the biopsy.
Foreman goes to visit Janice and says he can put her in a separate trial with a drug that won’t
cause nausea. He gives her the forms and leaves.
An increasingly panicked Cuddy goes to see House and wonders if they’ve overlooking something. He points out that patients die every day and she can’t afford to get worked up about
all them. As he goes through his desk he finds a present from Whitney. He tells Cuddy about
the supposed parthenogenesis and she notes the testing machine was down. House explains he
faked the whole thing and then tosses his present to Wilson and says he won by proving he was
nice to a patient and she thanked him. Cuddy is surprised but Wilson admits he was trying to be
nice. Cuddy realizes that the seizures and liver failure indicate eclampsia, meaning Natalie was
pregnant and her fetus is dead.
Cuddy explains to Natalie and her parents that she has eclampsia, and you can get it up to
a month after giving birth. Natalie quit drinking when she discovered she was pregnant, and
concealed it. Natalie admits Simon is the father and he doesn’t know about it. She was worried
the other students would find out, but when it stopped breathing she left it at a house near
the soup kitchen. Cuddy admits the damage to the heart and liver are permanent and there’s
nothing they can do. Natalie admits she just put her coat over the baby and left her.
Cuddy goes to the abandoned apartment where Natalie left her dead baby. She finds a squatter
living there and he tells her to leave. A woman comes in holding a baby and Cuddy realizes the
woman isn’t the mother. Cuddy wants to get the baby for treatment and says the woman has to
let her go. Cuddy returns to the hospital and brings the baby to Natalie. Natalie holds her child
and Simon arrives, and Kutner tells him to go in.
Kutner goes to the hospital Christmas party, clearly upset, and tells the others about what
happened and that Natalie only has a couple of days left. The daughter is being kept for observation and could end up with Simon. Kutner then goes to see a man, Jonathan, and apologizes
for bullying him in high school.
House visits Cuddy as she watches over the baby. She explains that the grandparents are
putting the baby up for adoption, and she’ll adopt it. House wishes her a Merry Christmas and
leaves.
Thirteen visits Foreman and admits she was wrong and he’s not House. Foreman says he got
Janice on the trials as a Christmas gift to her, and proved he wasn’t House as a gift for himself.
She suggests they go to the party but they embrace and kiss.
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Painless
Season 5
Episode Number: 98
Season Episode: 12
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Monday January 19, 2009
Thomas L. Moran, Eli Attie
Andrew Bernstein
James Wilson)
Martin Henderson (Jeff), Jake Cherry (Zack), Sarah Danielle Madison (Lynne), Alex Fernandez (Fernando), Anthony Montgomery (James
Carlton), Lori Petty (Janice Burke), James Ingersoll (Chris Carrick),
Aisha Kabia (Nurse Rita)
HOU-512
House and his team deal with a man living in constant pain. Meanwhile, Thirteen receives treatment by Foreman while taking part in his
clinical trial on Huntington’s Disease, and Cuddy tries to balance her
hospital duties with her new baby.
A man, Jeff, is at home writing an
apologetic note. He leaves his wedding
ring on it and then goes to the closet
and picks out clothing. His wife Lynne
and son Zack are stopping off at home to
get Zack’s hockey stick for practice. They
open the garage door and find Jeff in the
car, unconscious, with the car running.
Lynne tries to revive him and he wakes
up, saying he couldn’t take the pain any
more.
House is at home in the bath tub clutching at his leg in pain. The next day he arrives at the
hospital and Cuddy tells him he owes Cameron a favor for filing his budget reports for him. House
objects but Cuddy tells him to work it out with Cameron: she has a DYFS home visit to prepare
for. Cameron brings Jeff’s case to House and his team and notes that he has plenty of painkillers
in his drug cabinet. House figures she’s trying to teach him a valuable life lesson. Taub thinks
Jeff has mental issues and notes that none of his doctors have found anything wrong with him.
House tells them to run a pain profile and check out Jeff’s home.
Taub talks to Jeff, Lynne, and Zack, and Jeff says he isn’t depressed. Foreman and Thirteen
check out the house. Foreman notes that Thirteen has been avoiding him since they kissed,
but she claims she’s been busy. He asks her out to dinner but she says no and informs him
she doesn’t want to kiss him again. She admits she likes him but it doesn’t make sense to get
involved with anyone. Thirteen doesn’t feel she can handle dragging anyone down with her. They
find wild quail in the freezer.
Back in diagnostic, Thirteen thinks the quail is responsible but Taub disagrees. House doesn’t
think Jeff’s depression has led to his pain. Taub recommends antidepressants and notes they’re
not diagnosing Jeff’s family. . . or House. House has Thirteen do biopsies of Jeff’s muscles and
then leaves. Thirteen and Kutner do the biopsies but Jeff starts feeling more pain and he arrests.
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House is at home trying to sleep when the phone rings. He ignores it and takes some more
Vicodin. The team notes that Jeff is getting worse, and House finally calls them back, having
already deduced that Jeff was having further problems. House tells them to check for tumors,
hangs up, and then notices water dripping from the ceiling. He knocks on it with his cane and
the ceiling breaks down, dumping water on him.
As they run tests, Kutner asks Taub if he knew someone who committed suicide. Taub denies
knowing anyone and just objecting to a rationale for suicide on general principles. They spot
indicators on Jeff’s diaphragm.
The next morning, House calls in a plumber, Fernando, who says it’s negligence and insurance
won’t cover it. The pipe was pulled apart and runs to House’s shower.
As Foreman tests Thirteen as part of the clinic trials, he points out again that she can’t shut
people out. Thirteen points out that his patient is dragging down his family. Taub and Kutner
report that there’s air leakage in Jeff’s intestine and House won’t answer his calls. Foreman
orders an angioplasty to find the vascular blockages and prevent another cardiac arrest. Thirteen
eagerly volunteers to go with them to get away from Foreman.
House arrives in the office and Foreman tells him the test results. House doesn’t believe the
air caused Jeff’s ailments and realizes where the air came from. He goes to Jeff’s room and traces
the IV tube. He finds where Jeff blew into his IV tube to try and kill himself. Jeff admits he lied
and wants them to let him die. House refuses to grant him his wish.
The team puts him in a hyperbaric chamber and Cuddy has them report to her home where
she’s tending to her baby, Rachel. She notes that House hasn’t showered in a while. Thirteen
suggests Jeff is suffering from non-motor seizures, indicative of McCardle’s, and Foreman agrees.
House orders tests in case they’re right.
Janice is at the clinic and is doing better. She thanks Thirteen for getting her back into the
study and says that she was switched to be back-to-back with Thirteen’s appointment just this
morning.
Kutner tests for McCardle’s and advises Lynne and Zack that Jeff can recover with treatment.
Jeff tells his wife and son to get out since the tests are all that he can handle. Taub tells him
not to be an ass and Jeff says Taub has no idea what he’s going through. Jeff suddenly has new
pain in his leg.
Thirteen confronts Foreman about assigning Janice’s appointment so she could see some
positive results of the treatment. Foreman says he’s not responsible for scheduling and this was
the first he had heard about Janice improving.
House is looking for the name of a lawyer as Kutner and Taub report to him about the new
symptom. House goes with the lawyer that Kutner used when he set a patient on fire, Chris
Charrick. Kutner jokingly suggest they cut off Jeff’s head to see if the pain goes away. House
calls Cuddy to her office and forces her to do her job to get her to give him permission to separate
Jeff’s central nervous system from his body. That way they can determine if the pain is coming
from his brain or his body. Cuddy warns that it’s dangerous but House notes Jeff will definitely
kill himself if they don’t come up with a cure. Cuddy gets a page and leaves, telling him to do
what he thinks is right.
The next morning, Cuddy is at home and discovers that her babysitter is running late. The
DYFS inspector shows up an hour early on her doorstep.
House drops in on Jeff as he undergoes treatment to isolate his central nervous system. Jeff
notes that House is there in the hope that they might find a cure that he can use as well.
James Carlton, the DYFS inspector, goes over Cuddy’s house and notices ants, and the fact
she hid diapers in her briefcase. However, he says that everything looks fine, all things considered, and he’ll see Cuddy in a year.
Jeff says he’s feeling a lot better but House thinks that the problem in Jeff’s brain is still
there. As the team goes over the result, Kutner’s lawyer Carrick comes in and tells House that
he’ll sue him the next time that House uses his name in a threatening e-mail to a plumber.
Thirteen wonders if the spinal block caused a placebo effect. They’re interrupted when they get
pages that Zack has collapsed suffering from pain. House realizes he’s faking and tells Jeff to
give him the bottle of isopropyl he drank while Zack tried to provide a distraction. Zack tells them
that Jeff isn’t his dad anymore and Jeff just wants it to be over with.
With their most recent treatment a failure, there doesn’t seem to be anything else. House
concludes that whatever injury caused the original pain healed, and the only thing left is the
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drugs. He suggests that the opioid treatment altered Jeff’s pain receptors. He has them take Jeff
off the current painkiller drugs so his pain receptors will recalibrate themselves.
Wilson drops by to visit Cuddy with a large stuffed duck. She’s worried that everything is too
much for her and she only passed by the inspector’s meager standards, not hers. Wilson points
out that she’s creating ridiculous standards and she should get help.
Jeff asks them to sedate him as they prepare to take him off the drugs, and they warn that
they can’t give him any drugs. Taub finally admits to Kutner that his colleague tried to kill
himself, and his family was torn apart as a result. House is watching and Foreman points out
that it’s torture to take Jeff off the drugs on a hunch. House responds by accusing Foreman of
manipulating the clinical trials to get closer to Thirteen, and says that he checked the logs and
discovered that Foreman rescheduled Janice’s appointments.
Back at his house, House fakes a cooking accident to the pipes and calls in Fernando to
replace the pipes. The plumber notes the fire skipped his pipes and hit the neighbors. House
looks up and starts to get an idea.
While Jeff suffers, Lynne talks to House and wonders if they’re better off letting Jeff kill
himself. She thought House would understand because of his own pain and asks if he wants
to live the way Jeff is. When he can’t answer, she tells him to stabilize Jeff and she’ll take her
husband home and do what has to be done. House agrees.
At home, House checks Fernando’s completed work as the plumber notes that House paid
more to bribe him to lie on the claim then he would have to pay for the repairs. House insists he
didn’t break the pipes and he wanted to make sure the insurance company pays. As Fernando
leaves, House notices him scratch his crotch and leaves for the hospital. He meets with the team
and suggests epilepsy that has rewired the pain neurons, and the EKG wouldn’t have detected it
if was in an area of the brain too deep inside: the area that controls the muscles of the testicles.
House talks to Jeff and gets him to admit the pain first started in the scrotum. They confirm the
diagnosis and treat him for epilepsy.
Cuddy goes over her files in her office, with Rachel at her side.
A recovered Jeff walks through the hospital with Zack as Lynne looks on. Kutner figures that
the colleague Taub described is himself, but Taub denies it and leaves.
Foreman finds Thirteen early for her tests at the clinic. She asks if he’s busy that night and
he says he isn’t. He talks to the nurse and realizes that Thirteen’s on the placebo.
Cuddy asks Cameron why she wanted House to take on Jeff’s case. Cameron admits she
wanted to give House some manner of hope. Cuddy hesitates, then asks Cameron if she wants
Cuddy’s job.
House gets in the bath tub and holds onto the shower pipe. He notices that the pipe is loose
because he uses it as a handhold to get into the tub.
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Big Baby
Season 5
Episode Number: 99
Season Episode: 13
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David Foster (II)Lawrence Kaplow
Deran Sarafian
Robert Chase)
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Kal Penn (Dr. Lawrence Kutner), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Erika Flores (Sarah), Andy Scott Harris (Johnny), Saige Ryan Campbell
(Jessica), Tammy Dahlstrom (Tammy), Sam Gregory (Screaming Kid)
HOU-513
The team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who spits
up blood and collapses in the middle of class. Meanwhile, Cameron
finds herself taking on some of Cuddy’s duties, including dealing with
House, and Foreman has to make a decision concerning Thirteen’s
participation in the clinic trials.
Sarah is leading a Special Ed class
and one of the students, Johnny, notices that they have a new assistant.
Sarah tells him that the old assistant
got married and he wonders why Sarah
isn’t married yet. He wonders if they
can get married and she puts him off.
Johnny spills glitter on a neighboring
girl’s painting. However, the girl starts to
cry, and Sarah tries to comfort her. However, Sarah starts coughing up blood and then collapses to the ground, unconscious.
Cameron brings the case file to House in the cafeteria as he steals some food, and tells him
that she’s been put in charge while Cuddy’s gone. House figures they’ll all learn a valuable lesson
and then things will be back to normal. He takes the case to the team and notices Foreman is
smirking at the fact Cameron is in charge. House assures them he’s going to do his job, and leave
Cameron crushed in his wake. Foreman suggests blood ailments and Thirteen disagrees, and
House calls them on it, noting it’s a smoke screen and wonders if they have differing opinions. He
tells them to run a bleeding-time test. Hadley and Thirteen administer the test and Sarah gushes
about her students and is incredibly happy. There’s no sign of clotting, suggesting something is
wrong. She assures them she’s not worried.
At home, Wilson visits Cuddy and talks about Rachel. He notices something is wrong and
Cuddy says that she doesn’t feel anything for the child. She dismisses her concerns and insists
she’s doing everything she’s supposed to do, and Rachel will be fine.
Thirteen and Foreman explain that Sarah’s platelets are damaged and House wonders why
they’re agreeing. House orders irradiation for possible ITP, which will cause cancer and kill her
digestive track. Kutner believes it’s irresponsible. House offers to go to Cameron to get her permission. She immediately agrees with him, to his surprise, and tells him if he comes to her with
a request he thinks is necessary, she’ll approve it. Surprised, House goes to his team and asks
them for a reason to not do the irradiation. They decide to fake the procedure but not actually
flip the switch. House okays it while ordering increased drug treatment.
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Foreman talks to Chase about the fact he accidentally learned that Thirteen is receiving the
placebo in the Huntington’s drug trials. Chase advises her not tell her to avoid compromising the
trial. He wants to put her on the real drug and Chase notes that it’s crazy.
Thirteen and Taub administer the fake test to Sarah, who asks for a timeout so she can go
to the bathroom. They agree but she collapses as soon as she gets off the table. Her heart stops
and they’re forced to resuscitate, and the heart condition indicates it’s not ITP.
Back in differential, the team concludes there are no heart problems. House wonders why
someone would have to pee in the middle of a nuclear procedure. Thirteen suggests Sarah has
cold agglutinins caused by low temperatures in the classroom and the radiation chamber. Foreman agrees and House tells them to stop. House then tells them to give Sarah a cold bath: if she
has cold agglutinins her heart will start racing.
Cuddy is visiting Cameron, wanting to know why she approved the radiation procedure.
Cameron explains that she said yes because House wanted her to say no. Cuddy warns her
not to play House’s game but Cameron insists on doing it her way. House arrives and waits for
Cuddy to leave, noting Rachel is outside. He concludes that Cuddy brought Rachel to work to
dump her because she hates the baby and thinks she’s making a mistake. He admits Wilson
told him and says it’s not a big deal. He explains Cuddy doesn’t have any obligations yet and
emotionally she’ll feel guilty, but Rachel will never know her. Cuddy sarcastically thanks him
and leaves, and he tells Cameron what he wants. She approves the procedure but tells House to
draw blood and freeze it first to see it if clumps. The team wonders what Cameron is up to and
Foreman figures Cameron is playing House.
Kutner goes to draw the blood and finds Johnny and his mother visiting Sarah. Johnny’s
mother explains that Johnny has improved since studying under Sarah, and he started to lose
ground when Sarah became ill. Kutner draws the blinds so the nurses don’t know and leaves
with the blood samples.
Foreman and Thirteen are testing the blood and she drops something. She admits she’s feeling
better because of the medicine and Foreman warns her not to get too hopeful. Thirteen insists
she’s feeling better. The tests show that Sarah’s blood is clumping, indicating the possibility of
cold agglutinins.
Foreman goes to see Cameron, who tells him not to bother.
House watches from the observation gallery as Kutner and Thirteen put Sarah in the cold
bath. She talks about Johnny and how she got him to open up. She mentions going to the wrong
room because of a mix up in the room numbers. Her heart rate remains normal, disproving the
cold agglutinin theory, but House says that she has brain damage
Back in differential, House explains that her confusion over the room numbers and the fact
she forgot to pee before the irradiation procedure. The damage is ongoing, but Foreman thinks
that House is simply trying to prove she has brain damage to indicate why she’s a nice person.
Kutner suggests a pancreatic tumor but House believes it’s MS and plaques in her brain are
interfering with her brain function and will spread to her brain stem, shutting down her lungs.
He orders a brain biopsy but Kutner disagrees and suggests an ERCP on the pancreas. They go
to Cameron who says they have to assume it’s a brain, but orders a MRI to spot the MS plaques.
House refuses, saying that Cameron is hedging her bets to stand up to House. She’s wasting
time and he tells her to choose. She insists they do the MRI first.
Cuddy and Rachel visit Wilson and Cuddy tells him she doesn’t want to go home. She’s been
wondering if House was right, and doesn’t know if she wants to make sacrifices for Rachel.
The MRI shows no MS plaques and House okays the ERCP. Foreman talks to House about
ethical advice on helping Thirteen. House asks if the drug will cure, and when he learns it
probably won’t, notes it’ll keep Thirteen alive for maybe three extra years. He asks Foreman if
that’s worth him risking his life in medicine. Foreman thanks him for the advice, but as he leaves
House notes it’s worth it if he loves Thirteen.
The others run the ERCP but her lungs shut down. They drain the effusions but Kutner
insists the MRI proves House was wrong. House suggests a nerve-conduction study on her brain
to find the dead spots, but they’ll have to cut off her skull. Kutner wants a more sensitive test
but House points out that they don’t have time. Kutner goes ahead and does it anyway while
House gets permission to cut open Sarah’s skull. He goes to Cameron, who already knows about
the intended procedure thanks to Kutner. House believes that equine encephalitis set off the
damage in the left side of Sarah’s brain, possibly caused by a mosquito bite. Cameron still wants
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something to confirm and House sends Thirteen and Foreman to check out the school. Thirteen
says that she wants children, but was reluctant before because of her illness. Now she feels like
parenting is an option.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy and gives her a present: a framed photo with an age-accelerated
image of Rachel. He tries to get her to think of Rachel as a human being with a future. When it
doesn’t work, Wilson admits the photo came with the frame.
House comes to Cameron with the results from the classroom: three dead bugs and a child
suffering from a raging viral syndrome. The bugs are fruit flies and the kid has a common cold:
Cameron isn’t impressed. Kutner hasn’t found anything with his second test. She wonders what
he wants her to do and he says to say yes, and she does. Kutner confronts House and points out
he’s skipping steps to test Cameron. Kutner suggests they remove her spleen and House says
that’s fine if the brain test doesn’t work. House and Cameron attach electrodes to her exposed
brain and run the tests to determine the dead sections of her brain. Kutner calls Cuddy at home
and she gets on the loudspeaker to tell House to stop. Rachel cries in the background, distracting
and irritating Sarah. Cuddy begs Rachel to stop calling as Sarah’s blood pressure starts dropping
but her nerve conduction increases. Cuddy continues to yell at Rachel and Sarah continues to
get mad. Cuddy asks the baby what she wants and she stops crying. Cameron stabilizes Sarah
and they close her up.
They have to wait two hours for the anesthesia to clear so they can operate on her spleen.
House wonders why Sarah got angry and concludes the low blood pressure is somehow responsible. Later, House reviews the white board and Cuddy arrives with Rachel. Cuddy explains that
she actually talked to Rachel and connected with her. Cuddy insists it was real, and asks if
House wants to hold her. House does, and the baby spits on him. He realizes it’s a problem with
her stomach sphincter and gets an idea.
Kutner is reassuring Sarah she can live without her spleen when House arrives and says
they didn’t look at her heart. He checks and discovers her ductus valve didn’t close when she
was born. She has a patent ductus arteriosis that directs blood throughout her body when she’s
under stress. The blood is redirected from the left side of her brain, causing her to become less
stressed when in a high-stress situation. Surgery can correct the ductus and fix the problem.
Cameron visits Cuddy, who notes that Cameron was right. Cameron tells her that she’s quitting: she can’t handle House and approved his tests without sufficient evidence. She admits she’ll
always say yes to House because he knows her too well.
Johnny comes to see Sarah and spills water on her. Sarah continues to be cheery and upbeat.
House looks on, interested.
Foreman switches Thirteen’s placebo for the real medicine. Thirteen comes by and he smiles
at her.
Cuddy leaves for work, leaving Rachel with a babysitter. As Rachel cries, Cuddy hesitates and
then keeps going.
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The Greater Good
Season 5
Episode Number: 100
Season Episode: 14
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Monday February 2, 2009
Sara Hess
Lesli Linka Glatter
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson)
Judith Scott (Dana Miller), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), David
Purdham (Chef Anthony)
HOU-514
A former cancer researcher collapses in the middle of a cooking class,
and the team are forced to reevaluate their own lives when they learn
she gave up a promising career to seek personal happiness. Meanwhile, Thirteen suffers adverse reactions from the clinical trials, and
Cuddy gives House a dose of his own medicine.
At a restaurant cooking class, Chef
Anthony presents a class as his assistant
Dana Miller assists. Dana starts to waver
and her lips turn blue from cyanosis. She
explains that she’s a doctor and says she
needs a doctor, then collapses.
Thirteen wakes up in bed to find Foreman watching her.
Wilson is at Amber’s apartment where
he lives, cleaning up before the day begins. He sees her empty coffee cup still sitting on the counter and leaves it there.
House arrives at work to discover the elevators have signs saying they’re shut down for maintenance. He limps his way up the stairs where the team has assembled to go over Dana’s case
of spontaneous pneumothorax. House thinks it’s a boring case but Thirteen says that Dana is
close to coming up with a cure for cancer and insists they should take the case. They go over the
file as Kutner arrives, and House realizes he took the elevator. Thirteen and Taub prepare Dana
for a CT for hyperinflation and as they work, she explains she quit as a doctor eight months ago
when she was treated for a uterine myoma. She decided to find happiness by doing what she
wanted to do and becoming a cook.
House goes to see Curry and complain, but she’s busy watching Rachel on her computer via
webcam. She finally admits that she’s getting revenge on him for forcing her to work instead of
stay at home with her baby. House simply walks out without a sarcastic remark. However, when
he goes to the elevator he removes the sign and gets in with everyone else.
As the team go over Dana’s CT, they conclude it’s not asthma and wonder if she had a hole
in her lung due to the myoma surgery. They wonder why Dana quit and discuss if doctors
should forego up their own self-interest. Kutner notices increased interstitial markers indicative
of pulmonary fibrosis. House orders a biopsy and sends them to take care of it. As they leave,
House comments privately to Foreman about his tampering with Thirteen’s clinical trial to give
her the real drug rather than the placebo, but Foreman denies it.
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Foreman card-tests Thirteen in the clinical trial, and she complains of a headache. He tries to
pursue the matter but she dismisses his concern, saying nothing would crop up after her several
weeks in the program.
Taub informs Dana they need to do an open-lung biopsy to confirm pulmonary fibrosis, but
she refuses since it will take her out of service for several weeks. He admits he’s happy with
his job and Dana points out that it makes him happy. However, what she did as a doctor didn’t
make her happy. She feels a pain in her side and Taub draws a sample, determining her liver is
bleeding into her stomach.
As the team walks and performs differential, House stumbles across a tripwire while going
into his office. He ignores it and the team wonders why, while Foreman notes a spot on the
caudate lobe that might cause a granuloma and bleeding. House has them take a sample of her
lung and examine it under UV. After the others leave, House tells Foreman that Thirteen is losing
her peripheral vision and he needs to deal with it.
Wilson comes to see House as he tends to his bruised knee and asks about the new series
of pranks. House tells him that he’s safe and Wilson wonders if House has a long-term plan.
House assures him there’s no game: Cuddy wants revenge. He has no reason to strike back
because he won’t gain anything, so he’s going to let her exhaust herself. Wilson wonders if House
is feeling guilty about taking her away from her baby and thus giving in, but House denies it.
Wilson notices his file on Dana and goes to see her. She remembers him from a conference, and
he explains he has patients who will die without her finding a cure. Dana explains that a lot of
people in ruts were angry at her when she quit, and she asks what his rut is.
Taub is in bed staring at his wife Rachel. He finally asks fit hey should have kids and she
says that they already discussed it and she doesn’t want kids. Taub agreed at the time but has
changed his mind. He admits he’s been reconsidering her life recently but Rachel insists it’s not
a whim and she likes their life without children. Taub says he’s okay with her decision.
Foreman arrives to test Thirteen’s peripheral vision and realizes that she’s getting worse.
Thirteen concludes she’s on the drug and wonders if Foreman will have to have her taken off the
drug. He confesses that he switched her from the placebo to the drug. Thirteen says she’ll stop
taking the drug and goes back to business on Dana’s case. As she leaves, she wonders why he
risked his career to give her a drug that might help her. Thirteen admits she isn’t ready for that.
Foreman goes to see Dana with the test results and notices that she’s bleeding at the scalp.
She says she scratched it in her sleep but he realizes that Dana is leaking brain matter and calls
for help.
The next day, the team goes back into differential. Thirteen snaps at the others and then
apologizes, saying she has a headache. House concludes that Dana’s problem is in her brain.
Kutner suggests a mental imbalance but House notes the itching started recently. He tells the
team to run a MRI for brain tumors or MS. As they leave, House realizes that Cuddy has stolen
his cane. He sees a mop bucket nearby and gets an idea.
Foreman tries to talk to Thirteen about her headaches and the fact she still has them despite
the fact she’s off the drug. He notices she’s taking high dosages of codeine but Thirteen thinks
he’s making it about himself. Foreman insists that the symptoms mean more than his hurt
feelings.
House limps into Cuddy’s office using the mop and bucket, but tries to read her a magazine
column about how working moms are more fulfilled. She insists that’s self-rationalization and
points out he doesn’t even have the right magazine. Cuddy figures he’s going to get revenge by
dumping the dirty mop water on his carpet. House simply limps out with the bucket.
Foreman runs a MRI on Thirteen and apologizes for taking a risk. He notices something
ominous on the MRI.
Kutner and Taub are going over Dana’s MRI when House limps in using a hospital cane.
House wonders where Thirteen and Foreman are. Foreman comes in, takes her cote, and walks
away. House suggests polyneuropathy and suggests shocking the nerves to cure Dana. He goes
to see Foreman, who admits that Thirteen has a tumor in her optic chiasm. He plans to go to the
drug company to get records on other patients with similar symptoms. House says that would
be a stupid idea and they need to give it time for the tumor to melt away. Foreman goes back to
his apartment and Thirteen says her leg is bleeding from when she fell over a table, and she fell
over the table because she’s now blind.
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The next morning, Wilson comes into his office to find House asleep. Cuddy called the utilities
company pretending to be Mrs. House and had them shut everything down. Wilson points out
that House’s non-involvement strategy isn’t working.
House meets with Taub and Kutner who explain Dana experienced spinal shocks indicative
of Lhermite’s. House tells them to investigate further and find a hemangioma, then goes to Foreman’s apartment to see Thirteen. He realizes that she’s blind and she reveals Foreman is on his
way to the drug company. House tells her to call Foreman and stop him so they can administer
radiation treatment for her tumor. He admits he told Foreman to switch her onto the drug if he
loved herm, and wonders if she feels anything for Foreman or not. She takes the phone and calls
him.
Wilson confronts Cuddy and points out she’s physically hurting House. He wonders what
she’s trying to accomplish and she insists she’s miserable. Wilson points out she likes being at
work and tells her to fire House if she doesn’t want to give up Rachel to deal with him. When
Cuddy admits she like what House does for the hospital, Wilson says what House does for the
hospital is part of what he is, and the same goes for her.
Foreman and House prepare to administer radiation to Thirteen’s tumor and House notes
that Foreman has to be ready to lose. He points out that Foreman loves her, but never took
her feelings into consideration. They place the catheter in the optic chiasm and administer the
radiation.
Taub and Kutner run another MRI on Dana to find a hemangioma, but find dozens of them
scattered throughout her body. They take the results to House and he tells them to confirm
mesothelioma with Wilson via a biopsy. Kutner refuses until he gets an answer about what’s
going on with Thirteen and Foreman. He figures that House isn’t saying anything because he
doesn’t want them to react, and asks what will happen if checks with Admitting to see if Thirteen
is in treatment.
As Wilson checks Dana for mesothelioma, he apologizes and explains that Amber died and
he’s still living in her apartment. He admits he’s stuck in a rut and wonders how he can get
unstuck. She tells him the only wrong thing is to do nothing. He tries to sample a hemangioma
and discovers that it’s bleeding. They both realize that’s not supposed to happen.
Kutner finds Foreman and Thirteen and tells Foreman to go to the drug company. Thirteen
points out that Foreman feels guilty and Kutner says he’s a hypocrite for letting Thirteen call the
shots now.
Wilson meets with House and Taub to point out that mesothelioma doesn’t bleed. Her heart
stops as she bleeds into her pericardium. They drain the blood but Dana’s condition worsens
as she bleeds from the nose and eyes. They try to keep her stable but can’t keep up with her
bleeding. She’s in too bad a condition for bleeding so House tells them to use embolization to
cut off the arteries to the tumors, starting with her lungs. Taub warns that the treatment will
destroy healthy tissue as well but there’s no choice.
House finds Cuddy waiting for him with his cane. She gives it back to him and says she’s
accepting who he is. House reverts to his usual sarcastic self and wonders if they’ll have to go
through the same thing in 28 days. Even as he says it, he gets an idea. As he leaves, Cuddy
figures that he’s accepting his apology in his own unique manner. She figures he’s just playing a
role, but he tells her to stop rationalizing.
House goes to Dana’s room and confirms that she’s on her menstrual cycle. Dana is bleeding
from her uterus and is bleeding everywhere else as well. She has ectopic endometriosis. When
the surgeons cut through her uterine wall to remove the myoma, endometrial cells spilled out
into her bloodstream and throughout her body. They multiplied, reached a critical mass, and
started swelling and bleeding when her uterus did during her cycle. They can’t do surgery until
she stops bleeding, so Dana will have to hold out until then.
Foreman is standing vigil at Thirteen’s bed as she sleeps. He takes her hand and apologizes,
and she wakes up to reveal that she can see again.
Taub visits Dana after the surgery. He asks her how she feels about her life choices and she
admits she wasn’t thinking ”what if.” Taub worries about what he’ll think on his death bed, and
she tells him to worry about that day when it comes, and to go to bed happy tonight.
Foreman contemplates the clinic patients, then calls Dr. Schmidt with the drug company and
tells him the trial isn’t going well.
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House visits Foreman in the locker room and realizes he confessed to the drug company.
Thirteen’s results are inadmissible and all the have to do is put a warning label on if anyone
else They’ve agreed not to pull Foreman’s license unless he participates in future trials. House is
satisfied that Foreman will be there, then leaves after stealing from a co-worker’s wallet.
Rachel Taub wakes up and finds Taub sitting nearby. She wonders if he can be happy without
a child. He says he can’t be happy without her. She gets up and they cuddle.
Thirteen wakes up next to Foreman and tells him he snores.
Wilson is cleaning dishes in Amber’s apartment. He sees her coffee cup and finally washes it
and puts it away.
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Unfaithful
Season 5
Episode Number: 101
Season Episode: 15
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David Hoselton
Greg Yaitanes
James Wilson)
Jimmi Simpson (Daniel Bresson), Jake Thomas (Ryan), Janet Haley
(Eileen), Terrance Ellis (Daryl), Nick Josephs (Man)
HOU-515
House struggles with his own beliefs as he takes on a case of priest
with a disturbing past who runs a shelter for homeless people and
sees a vision of Jesus.
At a homeless shelter, Reverend
Daniel Beeson sends his assistant home
and starts cleaning up. A homeless man,
Daryl, knocks on the door and asks for
an extra coat. Daniel lets him in to find
a coat. Once Daryl is gone, Daniel goes
to his apartment and smokes and drinks.
He hears a pounding at the door again
and goes to answer it: Jesus is at the
door, bleeding and levitating.
House arrives and Cuddy asks him to come for Rachel’s baby-naming ceremony. He considers
the whole thing hypocritical but Cuddy insists that he come. House says he’ll think about it and
goes to the ER to mock Cameron, who is back at her normal job. House goes through the files for
his next patient, Daniel. Cameron dismisses Daniel’s Jesus sighting as a drunken hallucination.
House notes she isn’t sure what brought on the hallucination and summons the team for a
differential. They figure House either wants to screw with them or Daniel. House concedes it
could be either or both and sends them out to test Daniel and the shelter. Before they go, House
tells Thirteen and Foreman to choose between their relationship or their job: one of them has to
quit once the current case is resolved.
Kutner and Taub test Daniel and note that he traveled several times. Daniel explains that he
was accused of child molestation and was transferred repeatedly, but insists it isn’t medically
relevant. He denies molesting the child, but Taub suggests that syphilis might account for the
hallucination. Daniel says he hasn’t had sex and notes that he doesn’t really think he saw Jesus
either.
House and Wilson have lunch and Wilson admits he’s going to Cuddy’s christening ceremony.
House would rather Wilson avoid the whole thing and Wilson wonders why Cuddy invited him.
House admits that it’s flattering.
Foreman and Thirteen discusses House’s ultimatum and she wonders why Foreman insists
on working with House. Foreman finally admits she’s right and he’s going to stop House from
putting them through his most recent game. He says they’re not going to do anything.
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House doesn’t think that Daniel is innocent of the molestation and Taub agrees, but Kutner
isn’t so sure. Taub doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with Daniel and House agrees. Foreman
and Thirteen tell him neither one of them is quitting, and House tells Foreman he’s fired.
Taub and Kutner prepare to discharge Daniel, who says that his foot is numb and he feels
nauseous. Taub wonders why he’s so intent on staying but Daniel insists he’s ill. Kutner examines the foot and discovers that his toe fell off due to necrosis.
House is happy they’ve got a real case, and Kutner and Taub wonder where Foreman and
Thirteen are. House explains Foreman quit and Thirteen is taking a stand for the moment. House
tells Taub and Kutner to check out Daniel’s house and put the priest in a hyperbaric chamber
in case of carbon monoxide poisoning.
As Foreman packs, Thirteen wonders what they’re going to do. He admits that their relationship would affect his judgment. Foreman insists she shouldn’t quit and they’ll both be fine. As
they kiss, Thirteen gets a page to check on Daniel.
At the shelter, Kutner and Taub discuss Foreman and Thirteen’s relationship while going over
Daniel’s apartment. Meanwhile, House and Cuddy are in the elevator and House insists she’s
a hypocrite. Cuddy insists it’s a sincere invitation and she wants him to come, and he says
he’ll be there. Cuddy then goes to Wilson and blames him for convincing House to come to the
christening when she only asked him to cover her bases. She tells Wilson to fix it and make sure
House doesn’t figure she told Wilson to do it.
Daniel’s necrosis stabilizes but he starts to panic in the hyperbaric chamber. They get him
out of the chamber as he appears to have a heart attack.
Foreman goes to see Cuddy for a letter of recommendation. She points out that House is right
and refuses to give a recommendation.
Back in differential, the team rules out a heart attack and House suspects it’s a clotting
disorder. He orders them to do an angio and Thirteen hesitates, and House goes to see Daniel.
The priest insists everything he’s said is true and God has forsaken him. House is impressed wit
his attitude. The angio shows negative but Daniel says that he’s not feeling any pain from the
probes to the chest. House believes it’s neurological and orders testing to confirm.
Wilson asks why House is going to Cuddy’s ceremony, and House says he’s fulfilled his obligation to Cuddy. He figures Cuddy is trying to play him and he refuses to let her get away with
it.
Thirteen approaches Cameron about getting a job in the ER. Chase tells her not to quit but
warns against office romances. He and Cameron wonder if Thirteen needs to stand up to House,
or if House is actually doing them a favor because he thinks their relationship won’t work out.
Cameron offers to make a call for her.
As Taub and Kutner conduct the tests, Kutner asks Daniel about his faith but the priest
doesn’t believe it. They find intercostals neuralgia, trauma to a nerve in the rib. Daniel tells them
that his right eye has gone blind.
The team goes back into differential and Thirteen returns. They’re unable to find any structurally damage to the eye but his body is shutting down. Thirteen suggests autoimmune, cancer,
and infection, but the tests prove negative. House figures that Daniel has an infection but his
spleen is failing so there are no white cells to indicate infection. He orders Taub and Kutner to
do a biopsy, and once they’re gone Thirteen asks House if he’ll hire Foreman back if she quits.
She claims Foreman is okay with the plan and House agrees.
House goes to see Daniel as they conduct the biopsy. They discuss Daniel’s loss of faith and
House wonders if Daniel is hoping to get it back. Daniel says he has nowhere else to go, and
challenges House’s own hypocrisy: he treats people even though he claims not to care about
them. The priest figures House is looking for someone to give him hope. House dismisses his
theory and leaves, where he runs into Cuddy. She tells him she doesn’t want him there and
House quickly agrees not to come. Cuddy is surprised he gave in but ends up thanking him for
not coming.
As Taub and Kutner run the tests, they advise Thirteen on whether she should stay or go.
Kutner thinks they should stay together, Taub thinks they should break up. The spleen tests
show some bugs.
House discusses faith with Daniel, who figures that House ha a thing for Cuddy. Taub arrives
to tell House in private that Daniel has pneumocystis, which is harmless unless Daniel’s system
is compromised: by AIDS. Daniel insists he doesn’t have AIDS but refuses to let them test. The
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treatment could cause serious internal damage but Taub insists they go ahead and also test the
boy that Daniel is accused of molesting. They can’t violate doctor confidentiality by informing the
boy’s parents and House orders them to treat Daniel for AIDS.
At home, Thirteen tells Foreman she’s found a job and tells him House has agreed to hire
Foreman back if she quits. Foreman insists he wanted to handle it and gets mad at Thirteen for
giving in to House.
As they eat, Wilson wonders why House is so obsessed with Cuddy being a hypocrite. He
figures House is being a hypocrite and he really wants to go. House denies any interest in going.
Taub secretly goes to see the boy that Daniel is accused of molesting, Ryan, and suggests he
should get tested. Ryan seems curiously disinterested in himself but asks how Daniel is doing.
While he says he’s been tested, refuses to tell Taub the results.
Foreman goes to House and demands his job back. Thirteen realizes something is going on
and wonders why Foreman didn’t tell her he was going to get her fired by going back to work for
House. House watches as the two of them argue until Thirteen storms out. House tells Foreman
he can either patch things up with Thirteen or get his job back. Foreman chooses the job.
As Kutner administers the anti-AIDS treatment, Daniel’s chest breaks out in a rash. Taub
thinks it’s a reaction to the treatment but House suggests that it’s hyper-IgE syndrome. The
IgE levels are normal and Thirteen suggests genetic micro-tumors. Foreman disagrees and they
argue. House tells them to run the genetic tests on Daniel. As Taub and Kutner run the tests,
Ryan arrives and apologizes to Daniel.
Wilson tries to convince House to overlook Cuddy’s hypocrisy so he’ll go to the christening.
Wilson talks about how even if an absolute truth exists, they can’t know all of it so House can’t
condemn her for failing to do so. House gets an idea and starts reviewing the symptoms on the
board. He finally eliminates the hallucination, saying it isn’t a symptom. He goes to Daniel’s room
and tells him he has Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. It’s similar to AIDS and impairs the immune
syndrome. It’s genetic and can be confirmed with a test. House claims that the hallucination was
brought on by drinking and was just a coincidence. Daniel notes that the coincidence brought
him to House, who cured him, and wonders how his life could improve in a single day. House
tells him that everything that happened can be rationally explained, but Daniel notes it’s a lot of
coincidences.
Cuddy visits Cameron and they note that House managed to succeed again even though he
violated is own principles. Cameron figures Cuddy wants House there, and tells her to tell House
how she feels. As House leaves, Cuddy approaches him and they make small talk. They go out
and leave in separate directions.
Cameron, Chase, and Wilson attend the christening.
Thirteen returns to Foreman’s apartment and they kiss.
House sits in his apartment and plays a serenade on the piano. . . alone.
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The Softer Side
Season 5
Episode Number: 102
Season Episode: 16
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Liz Friedman
Deran Sarafian
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson)
Dominic Scott Kay (Jackson), Julia Campbell (Melanie), Ben Reed
(Joseph), Nick Puga (Ian), Fred Kronenberg (Doctor), Meagan Gordon
(Young Woman), Nicole Cannon (Nurse Helen)
HOU-516
A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped.
Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy’s and Wilson’s
suspicions that something is terribly wrong.
In the past, a doctor reassures two
parents, Melanie and Ben, that their
child has male and female DNA, genetic
mosiacism. However, their baby can have
a normal life once they perform surgery,
but they’ll have to choose.
Now, the parents encourage their
son Jackson as he plays basketball. He
passes rather than makes one shot. With
seconds left in the game, Jackson gets
the ball again and makes the shot, winning the game. He then collapses to the gym floor, suffering
from pelvic pain.
Thirteen and Foreman are dressing for work in the morning and Thirteen tries to second guess
House so that he won’t guess they faked their breakup.
At the hospital cafeteria, House actually asks permission from Wilson to take his food. Cuddy
arrives and gives him the case, and asks that he not tell Jackson that he could have been a
girl. House readily agrees, surprising Cuddy. The team goes over the case and observes that the
parents want everyone to make sure they don’t say anything to Jackson about his testosterone
treatments and claim they’re vitamins. Foreman fakes an argument with Thirteen when she
suggests a MRI to check for a blind uterus. House has them run a camera up Jackson’s urethra.
However, the parents arrive and confront House directly, and suggest he perform a MRI based
on the research they’ve done. House gives in, much to everyone’s surprise.
Taub and Thirteen run the MRI and Taub asks about Thirteen’s relationship. He suggests
they’re both better off separated and that Foreman is like a robot. The test shows no indication
of a blind uterus. Meanwhile, Kutner goes to see Wilson and describe what happened. Wilson
suggests he simply enjoy it, but begins to have doubts himself.
Taub and Thirteen run a camera up Jackson’s urethra and the boy’s parents come in to
encourage him. Jackson starts to have trouble breathing due to pericardial infusion and they’re
forced to drain the fluid. Back in differential, the team suggests theories unrelated to the boy’s
mosiacism and House has nothing to add. Thirteen suggests that testosterone use might have
caused autoimmune disease, explaining the symptoms. House orders steroid treatments to block
the testosterone.
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Wilson goes to see Cuddy and accuses her of sleeping with House, explaining the good mood.
Cuddy denies it and figures it’s not a crisis. Meanwhile, Thirteen tells the parents to stop the
testosterone treatment but they worry if they do that Jackson will revert. They ask Thirteen to
tell Jackson that the testosterone blocker is something else. She suggests they tell Jackson the
truth but Melanie and Ben don’t believe it.
House meets with a clinic patient, Ian, who complains of pain in his limbs and demonstrates
by poking them with a finger. House figures out that Ian has a broken finger. Cuddy wonders
why Ian hasn’t screamed for another doctor, only to see him emerge grateful for House’s kind
and courteous treatment.
As Thirteen gives Jackson the testosterone blocker, she discusses basketball and he admits
that Melanie forced him to join the team. Jackson notes that he wanted to take dance but Melanie
forced him to choose sports and his father gave in to her. Thirteen notices that Jackson’s palms
are red and they still don’t know what’s wrong with him.
Cuddy goes to see Wilson and informs him that his worse fears are correct: House is in a good
mood.
Kutner talks with Foreman and offers his condolence on his breakup with Thirteen. Kutner
figures it’s for the best since Thirteen slept with women and Foreman won’t have to lose her to
another woman down the road. Wilson and Cuddy go into House’s office and discover that he’s
unconscious and they can’t wake him up. Kutner and Foreman notice and come in as Wilson
realizes that House has stopped breathing. House suddenly revives, screaming, and Cuddy demands to know what is going on. Wilson figures that House knows what the matter is but he
insists that he took too many Vicodin pills and asks about Jackson. The team realizes that House
hasn’t been taking Vicodin. House is more interested in discovering if Jackson is taking drugs
and orders them to check the home. After House leaves, Wilson concludes that House is taking
something stronger than Vicodin, possibly heroin.
Thirteen and Foreman check Jackson’s room and Foreman asks if she misses sleeping with
women. She tells him yes and then says she misses sleeping with other men, and figures he
misses sleeping with other women. She wonders why he’s bringing it up and they wonder if
Kutner and Taub are jerking them around because they know. That means House knows, but
Foreman thinks it’s good since House either has to jerk them around or fire them, and he’s not
firing them. Thirteen finds a journal page detailing possibly suicidal thoughts and reads it to
House. He is dozing but wakes up long enough to say he’s unconcerned. Taub reports that he’s
discovered toxoplasmosis indicating an infection.
As they give Jackson antibiotics, Thirteen shows Ben and Melanie the notes, but Melanie
refuses to discuss the truth with Jackson. Ben isn’t so sure but Melanie insists that they could
make things worse. Ben gives in and Melanie tells Thirteen to renew the testosterone treatments.
Foreman confronts Kutner and Taub, and Taub admits that he figured it out. Foreman wonders why House didn’t notice and calls Wilson. Wilson is having lunch with House and Foreman
soon realizes that House is there. House wonders why Wilson is buying him a drink and figures
Wilson thinks he’s on heroin. If House is on heroin, he can’t risk drinking the alcohol. Wilson
wonders if it’s true and House takes a drink and then leaves.
Thirteen gives Jackson a testosterone injection but then tells him they’re not vitamins and
tells him to ask his parents.
Wilson finds House throwing up in the alleyway, and House explains that he’s on methadone.
It has twice the risk of death but it’s legal. If he mistimes the dose, he can die. However, House
boasts that it eliminates his pain entirely and tosses away his cane, then casually walks away.
Ben and Melanie go to Cuddy to complain about Thirteen and demand that she be removed
from the case. Cuddy refuses to take Thirteen off the case and Melanie continues to insist that
Jackson isn’t ready for the news. Ben feels otherwise and says they don’t have a choice. After
they leave, Cuddy tells Thirteen to stay with Jackson since she’s the only one he’ll trust.
Ben and Melanie try to explain to Jackson about his condition and he thinks he’s a freak.
They disagree but he wonders why they lied to him. He tells them to get out.
House is reading in the bathroom stall when Cuddy comes in to tell him she knows about the
methadone. She warns him he could die but House doesn’t think it’s any of her business. Cuddy
forbids him from using methadone and House tells her that he’s quitting.
Thirteen tells Jackson that he’ll have to talk to his parents at some point but he refuses
to hear about it. He talks about his friend Will and wonders if he really likes him, and if he’s
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supposed to. Jackson points out he likes dancing more than basketball, and Thirteen tells him
that he doesn’t have to hide anymore. She shows him his poem that she found but he explains
that he wrote it for an English assignment. Jackson starts to feel nauseous and then vomits
blood. The hospital pages House, but he ignores the beeper and shaves off his stubble.
Foreman tells the team that Cuddy has put him in charge now that House is gone. Jackson
now has necrotizing pancreatitis. Kutner wants to call House and Foreman informs him that
he already tried and House isn’t answering. Taub suggests scleroderma but Thirteen suggests
Zollinger-Ellison and Foreman orders treatment. However, in private he points out that she favors
that diagnosis because it isn’t fatal, and she doesn’t want to make the family feel worse.
Wilson goes to see and finds a woman leaving. House explains to Wilson that he hired a hooker
to watch him breathe. Wilson is surprised to discover that House has shaved and is even wearing
a tie for a job interview. Wilson has to admit that House appears fine.
Taub informs the parents that Jackson isn’t responding to the Zollinger-Ellison treatment.
Melanie confronts Thirteen and Cuddy intervenes. She tells Melanie and Ben to see Jackson
regardless of his feelings, and then tells Thirteen she didn’t do it for her. Cuddy returns to her
office and Wilson admits that they may have made a mistake. Cuddy doesn’t believe it and insists
House doesn’t ”do” happy. Wilson thinks they should give House a chance not to be miserable.
Foreman and Thirteen are at home prepare to go to work the next day and Foreman tells
her that Jackson’s current treatment is slowing the progression of the disease slightly. Thirteen
wonders her kidney function is improving, which would mean scleroderma isn’t the cause.
House visits Cuddy to get a letter of recommendation. She says she’s been busy and gives
him the requirements for methadone treatment that he’ll receive at the hospital. She offers him
his job back and he agrees.
House returns to his office and Thirteen and Foreman inform the others that Jackson doesn’t
have scleroderma. House wonders when they came up with the idea and Thirteen lies. They go
over the list of diseases they’ve ruled out and House wonders if Jackson drinks energy drinks.
He goes to see the family and explains that Jackson initially had dehydration. The energy drinks
strained his kidney and it took longer to rebound from the dehydration. The contrast material
they injected for the MRI remained in his system and messed up his system. Jackson was fine
when he arrived: it was the parents asking for a MRI that almost got him killed. Dialysis will
clear out the contrast material and cure him.
Later, Thirteen talks to Jackson, who admits he’s conflicted over choosing dance or basketball.
Cuddy comes to bring House his methadone. He admits that he screwed up by giving into
the parents’ request for the MRI even though he knew Jackson didn’t need it. His good mood
helped caused Jackson’s problems. Cuddy points out he doesn’t need pain to be a good doctor
and House wonders why she wants him happy. She suggests that if he thinks his intellect his
compromised, then he feels he has nothing. He throws the methadone in the garbage and limps
out.
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The Social Contract
Season 5
Episode Number: 103
Season Episode: 17
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Monday March 9, 2009
Doris Egan
Andrew Bernstein
Jay Karnes (Nick Greenwald), Susan Egan (Audrey Greenwald), Darcy
Rose Byrnes (Marika Greenwald), Devon Michaels (Timothy Moore),
Jodi Harris (Elaine), Cyrus Deboo (Dr. Kapur), Sheri Foster (Cashier)
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House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who
loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe inhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what
he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects
Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.
At a banquet, best-selling author Timothy Moore is called upon by his publisher Elaine to give a speech to kick off
his book tour. His editor Nick Greenwald
goads him on and then tells him his book
won’t sell. Nick doesn’t understand why
he’s saying what he’s saying continues to
tell everyone exactly what he thinks and
then has a nosebleed and collapses.
House arrives at the meeting room and
the team informs him about Nick’s case and the fact he has frontal lobe inhibition. House orders
a nasal insertion to check Nick’s nasal cavity for cancer. Kutner and Taub go to see him, and
his wife and daughter Marika are already there. When Marika doesn’t respond to them, Audrey
explains that her daughter has an auditory processing problem. Nick starts to insult everyone
and his wife leaves in irritation.
House invites Wilson to a monster truck show but Wilson says he can’t go. Wilson finally tells
him he hates monster trucks and has just put up with going to humor House. Kutner reports
that they found no sign of brain damage but House insists that there’s something wrong and
orders more tests.
Cuddy gets a page to check on Nick, who describes her sexually. House sent the page and
notes he did it for Cuddy’s benefit. Meanwhile, Foreman discusses Nick’s comments about Thirteen and she isn’t thrilled with being judged sexually. As they monitor Nick, they ask him about
his voting record and he tells them he doesn’t vote. They spot a dark bit on his brain stem and
as Thirteen leaves, Foreman considers her butt.
Taub is discussing his nose size with Kutner as they eat, and discuss the social contract of
people lying to each other. House sits with Wilson and wonders why it’s so important he be nice.
Wilson finally admits he’s playing racquetball with Taub, but didn’t want to tell House because
he thought he’d be rubbing it in that House can’t play.
Foreman checks on Nick as his kidneys start to shut down. They put him on dialysis and go
over the case, and House asks Taub about his game with Wilson. He’s clearly skeptical about
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what they’re doing. House has them test the daughter for inherited neurological conditions and
punishes Taub by giving him extra blood tests to perform. He tells Taub he’ll keep harassing him
until he tells him the truth.
Kutner tests Marika with hot and cold sensors and Audrey worries if what Nick’s saying is
what he’s always felt. Marika starts to scream in pain from the treatment and confesses she
didn’t say anything because she wanted to help her father. Meanwhile, Taub runs the blood
tests and Nick asks him to keep Hadley away. He admits that while he has such thoughts, he
has never done anything to hurt his wife. Nick notices that Taub feels guilty when he mentions
cheating on one’s wife, and Taub hastily leaves.
House pages Taub to come to the morgue so he can test his racquetball skills. Taub agrees
after House threatens to fire him, and gives his report on Nick. The blood tests show that Nick’s
glaucoma level is normal, meaning he’s negative for diabetes. He finally admits he isn’t playing
racquetball with Wilson and claims that he wanted Wilson to owe him a favor. House doesn’t
believe him and tells him to have Kutner run more tests. Nick refuses once he discovers that
Marika has hurt. He claims that Marika doesn’t have an auditory problem and insists that she
daydreams and she’s below average. Audrey tries to keep him from talking but Marika runs away.
Nick suffers from a sudden fever as his lungs fill with fluid.
Back in differential, House orders Kutner to keep testing Nick and checking on his background. He tells Taub to do something else. A little later, Taub visits Wilson to ask him to lunch,
but quickly admits House sent him as a double agent. As Kutner does the tests, Nick asks Audrey
to leave, saying he doesn’t know what he’ll say next. As Kutner leaves, he sees House outside
of Wilson’s office. He gives his report and notes that Audrey has brought home a dog recently.
Kutner suspects that the dog is responsible for a bacterial infection and House agrees and orders
doxycycline treatment.
Taub comes out and reveals he managed to print out Wilson’s e-mails. Wilson has been
in contact with a Dr. Gonzalez at a hospital for a consult in Manhattan. Gonzalez deals with
depression in cancer patients and Taub wonders if Wilson is depressed. House doesn’t believe it.
Nick starts to recover thanks to the treatment but Foreman and Kutner warn that the damage
caused by the infection won’t go away. Surgery near the brain stem is extremely dangerous but
Nick is less than thrilled.
House is waiting for Wilson as he walks into the lobby. House figures he’s worried about something and reveals he knows about Gonzalez. He then figures Wilson is worried about something
because he left his coat behind. Wilson snaps at him, saying he just wants a part of his life that
House leaves alone.
House returns to his office to find Nick waiting for him. Nick is angry that they can’t cure
him and insists that House authorize the operation so he can have his old life back. House
goes to Chase and asks him to convince his boss to do the surgery. Chase wants to know why
House cares and House explains that Nick is concerned that he’ll drive everyone away with his
obnoxious mannerisms and assessments. Chase agrees to do what he can.
Chase and his boss proceed with the surgery as House watches. Wilson enters the galley
and says he overreacted. House figures he’s upset because he lost someone. He checked the
name Gonzalez and found a nurse with the name in the psych ward. House reveals that he’s
learned Wilson’s brother Daniel is in treatment there. Wilson tells his friend that Daniel is on
anti-psychotics and should be in condition to talk later that night. He explains that he didn’t tell
House because they don’t have the normal social contract: House wouldn’t reassure him the way
anyone else would. House admits it’s true. . . but offers to go with him.
Foreman and Taub check on Nick in post-op. He’s fine from the surgery but he’s still suffering
from disinhibition. He starts to insult Audrey again as his temperature drops and she demands
answers. His heart stop as Audrey backs away in shock and anger.
Back in differential, the team is unable to contact House. Foreman eliminates cancer and
orders a full body scan, but Taub points out House wouldn’t do it and it won’t do any good.
Foreman goes ahead with it anyway. In New York, Wilson and House wait to see Daniel and
Wilson talks about how he spotted his brother once but could never find him. House knows the
team is trying to get hold of him but ignores the call.
The team goes over the scans and they try to pinpoint the problem before Nick’s temperature
drops to fatal levels. They find a cyst and prepare to treat. Meanwhile, House concludes that
Wilson went outside with his coat to punish himself. Wilson admits that he was at med school
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and didn’t have the time to talk to Daniel. One night he hung up on his brother and the next day
Daniel ran away. House figures Wilson developed his people-pleasing skills as an overreaction,
but Daniel overreacted as well. House realizes what is wrong with Nick and calls his team to tell
them that he has a fibroma and their treatments have caused Nick’s body to overact to it, causing
all of his problems. House turns to discover that Wilson has already gone to see his brother.
Later, Nick checks out and apologizes to Taub. Audrey comes in and tells Nick that she’s been
offered a better position. Nick compliments her and wonders if Marika is okay. A nervous Audrey
assures him that their daughter has moved on.
As House leaves, he runs into Wilson, who says he’ll be meeting with his brother again and
would like House to meet him. Wilson explains that he and his brother are just strangers and
it was anti-climactic. House wonders if Wilson is okay with their relationship and their honesty,
and Wilson admits it’s a relief to have someone he doesn’t have to every worry about lying to.
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Here Kitty
Season 5
Episode Number: 104
Season Episode: 18
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Peter Blake (IV)
Juan J. Campanella
Judy Greer (Morgan), Christopher Moynihan (Neil Zane), Lorene Noh
(Business-Suited Woman), Charlie Carter (Billy)
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A nursing home worker, Morgan, fakes an illness to get House to examine a cat which can predict the death of elderly patients. House
doesn’t believe it. . . until Morgan becomes ill for real.
House is busy setting up a makeshift
Hot Wheels track in his exam room
when Cuddy comes in with a patient,
Morgan. House tries to dodge the exam
without success. Morgan describes being
run down and says she’s a nurse. She
collapses and House calls Cuddy back
in. House isn’t impressed, until Cuddy
points out that Morgan is urinating on
herself and her urine is green.
House takes the case to his team and Taub comes in late. He isn’t thrilled with the case, thinking it isn’t that important. Taub believes Morgan has epilepsy and drank green beer. House sends
Taub and Kutner to check out Morgan’s room, overriding Taub’s objections. They check out Morgan’s room at a senior citizen home and Kutner wonders why Taub is arguing with House. Taub
doesn’t think much of Kutner’s friendship and finds an anti-Alzheimer’s drug that causes green
urine. Taub reports it to House, thinking Morgan faked the entire thing due to Munchausen’s.
House insists the seizure was real, suggests phenol caused by carbolic acid poisoning, and orders Taub to do tests to confirm. Once Taub is gone, House admits to Kutner that he lied so
Taub wouldn’t know he’s going to disprove Taub’s theory.
As Taub leaves, he runs into an old classmate, Neil Zane, who came to the clinic to get an ear
problem looked at. Meanwhile, House goes to see Morgan and starts flashing lights to instigate
a seizure. When she has a seizure, House quickly realizes she’s faking and Morgan apologizes,
then tells him that a cat predicted her death. House quickly leaves.
As Taub examines Neil, Neil says he’s now a CEO. Taub shifts a calcium deposit in his ear,
curing him, and Neil asks him out for supper. Taub turns down the offer and admits that he’s
now happily if somewhat boringly married.
As House leaves, Morgan shows him the cat, Debbie, and explains that it’s slept next to ten
patients who have died in the last year. She asks him to see a videotape that proves what she’s
saying. She starts to have trouble breathing and Foreman checks on her, then tells House that
she’s actually suffering from bronchospasms that can’t be faked.
House and Cuddy watch a tape of a news story on Debbie’s ability to predict deaths by sleeping
on a bed. Cuddy is skeptical and gives House 24 hours to confirm if Debbie is faking, or she’ll
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kick Morgan out. House goes back to the team with Debbie and Foreman wonders if it’s possible
the cat is predicting deaths, or if it’s causing them. House tells Taub to get him a cigar, and Taub
discovers House is smoking the cigars that Neil sent him as a gift. House has figured out that
Taub lost money in investments, then tells them to test Morgan’s lungs for worms.
As Kutner and Taub watch the testing, Taub admits he feels bad about his wife Rachel. Kutner
tries to cheer him up without success. Thirteen confirms there are no worms in Morgan’s lungs.
House takes a crash cart and the cat to the coma patients’ ward. House is intent on proving if
the cat can predict deaths, and Kutner wonders if it’s actually possible. He puts the cat on the
patients and they realize one of the patients has a cat allergy. Debbie sits on another patient’s
bed but nothing happens. House has them check Foreman’s airborne allergen theory and goes to
his office. Cuddy is less than thrilled and sees that House has stolen genetically- modified mice
from the lab, and tells him to get rid of the cat. She tells him the team’s test turned up negative,
as Taub has obligingly informed her. House points out the risks to Morgan but Cuddy insists on
discharging her.
House takes Morgan out in a wheelchair and lights up a cigar, blowing smoke in her face.
He reveals he checked her purse and found lots of superstitious items. He figures something
happened a few years ago and she admits that her stepson Timothy choked to death in school
despite the teachers’ best efforts. House figures she wants his death to make sense but points
out is that it’s meaningless and won’t help her get back together with her ex. Morgan starts to
choke and House sees a rash on her neck, but admits it won’t be enough. He has another doctor
confirm her bronchospasms and takes her back to the hospital.
House has Taub change the cat’s litter box as punishment for ratting him out to Cuddy. Taub
refuses and leaves in disgust. House suspects Churg-Strauss and Kutner discovers that House
planted Debbie in his bag. House admits he did it to test if Kutner was as superstitious as he
claimed earlier in the coma ward. House orders steroid treatments for Churg-Strauss while they
conduct more tests.
Taub goes to dinner with Neil and finally admits he had an affair with the daughter of one of
his partners, he had to quit, and he told his wife Rachel anyway. Neil is thrilled with his life and
his job. Taub gives him advice on one of his new medical tools, a laser scalpel, and Neil is duly
impressed, and Taub considers the expensive office.
Morgan tells Thirteen that her urine is brown and she didn’t do anything. The next morning,
House is satisfied but Thirteen isn’t so sure. House then opens an umbrella in the office to
further irritate Kutner. Foreman notes they’ve ruled out everything that made the urine brown,
and wonders what would have combined with the remaining green urine to make brown. House
concludes it’s strep bovis infection from colon cancer. There are no tumors, however. House spills
some salt and Kutner admits there are some things he isn’t so sure about. Taub comes in and
House tells them to give Morgan a pillcam to test for tumors. As the team leaves, Kutner throws
the salt over his shoulder and avoids a ladder House has leaned against the door.
Taub apologizes for being late but says he’s not quitting. House figures it’s a matter of cowardice: Taub doesn’t have the guts to quit. He then takes Morgan to the coma ward and shows
her that the cat’s chosen patient is still breathing. Morgan suggests the cat is just confused
and House points out that sometimes, disproving a belief just makes the belief stronger. Morgan
insists that something terrible is going to happen to her.
House talks with Wilson and insists he’s just trying to get Morgan to think clearly. House
takes the cat to the children’s ward but Wilson stops him. He suggests that House might actually
be having doubts about himself but House insists that isn’t the case. The pillcam comes back but
there’s no signs of a tumor. Kutner suggests a flat lesion caused by skin cancer in the intestines
and House has them check for melanomas. As they go, Kutner finds the cat blocking the door
and tries to lure it away without success.
Later that night, Kutner calls to tell House they’ve found spider veins on Morgan’s back,
indicating Cushing’s. It accounts for the brown urine but not the bronchospasms. Kutner tells
House that the coma patient suddenly died after a year and a half: the cat was right.
House arrives at the hospital and discovers the cat is missing. As they search for it, they
wonder if it’s a coincidence. Kutner suggests the cat might have smelled liver or kidney failure,
but House has checked the dead patients’ records from the senior citizen center and most of
them didn’t have those symptoms. House starts to have breathing problems and his nose starts
bleeding, then he spits what appears to be blood in Kutner’s face. He reveals it’s cranberry juice,
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and another assault on Kutner’s superstitions. House tells them to have Chase do a venous
sampling on her brain: otherwise the disease is in Morgan’s adrenals.
Taub meets with Neil and asks to come work with him. Neil tells him that he can’t hire him
right away and he just hired a chief medical officer. Taub offers to invest in the laser scalpel and
Neil offers to take him on for a smaller amount, but warns it will take a way to pay off. Taub
insists that he needs to start changing and Neil agrees.
As House starts an autopsy on the coma patient, Chase arrives to tell the Morgan went into
cardiac arrest during the surgery. An ACTH test apparently confirms it’s in the brain. Next they
wonder if they have to remove the pituitary, but House says that it’s up to Morgan to decide
and sends Foreman and Chase to ask her. Wilson wonders why House isn’t berating Morgan to
get the treatment. He points out that House’s obsessions save lives, but this time it’s something
different that he doesn’t understand.
Chase explains to Morgan how to treat for Cushing’s, but warns that the only permanent
surgery is pituitary removal. Morgan says she wants the surgery because of the cat. Chase says
there’s a role for prayer and faith, but it doesn’t belong in the operating room. Morgan insists
there’s a reason for all the bad things that happened to her, because if there is no reason then
she doesn’t want to live.
As Chase prepares Morgan for surgery, Taub goes to House and tells him he’s quitting. House
doesn’t believe him and tells him to bring pastries, but Taub simply turns and leaves. As House
goes over the files, he sees the cat enter his office and tries to capture it. It gets up on his laptop
computer and House strokes it, then notices a difference between the cat and the videotape
image.
Taub goes to Neil’s company only to discover that Neil doesn’t work there any more. The
secretary informs Taub that Neil was a temp and is in custody. He has been ripping off people
by faking an ear injury, claiming he went to high school with them, then tricking them into
investing. Fortunately, Taub hasn’t given Neil his money yet.
House goes to Wilson and explains that the cat was seeking out warmth: all the patients
either had fevers or were using a heating blanket. Since Morgan was overheated, House points
out only one thing would account for all the symptoms: a corticotrophin-producing tumor of the
intestines. It must be somewhere the pillcam couldn’t go: her appendix. House quickly calls the
operating room to get the brain surgery stopped.
As Morgan packs, House visits her to gloat. He points out she was willing to risk brain surgery
based on a superstition. House insists that he diagnosed her based on science and reason, but
she notes that something else might have led the cat to House at just the right moment. She
insists that people having something to live for is important, even if it’s a superstition or religious
belief. House wishes her well and goes back to his office, only to discover that there’s cat pee on
his chair. Kutner takes credit for it as revenge for the fake blood incident, and House just walks
away. As he leaves for the night, Taub comes in with pastries and sits down in the conference
room. He looks up and sees the cat watching him.
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Locked In
Season 5
Episode Number: 105
Season Episode: 19
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David Foster (II), Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
Daniel Attias
James Wilson)
Faune A. Chambers (Molly), John Kapelos (Dr. Kurtz), Mos Def (Lee),
Skye Barrett (Jolie), Scotty Noyd Jr. (Drake Percy)
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House is injured in a motorcycle accident in New York and finds himself in bed next to a patient suffering from complete paralysis. As
House transfers the patient to Princeton to determine what’s wrong
with him, Wilson tries to find out why House was in New York.
A man, Lee, wakes up in a hospital
in Middletown, NY, but nobody is able to
hear him and he’s unable to move. Dr.
Kurtz is preparing Lee for organ transplant because they believe he’s braindead. However, House is there after a motorcycle accident and insists that Lee is
still alive but suffering from locked in
syndrome. Kurtz disagrees with him but
House gets Lee to blink to acknowledge
he’s conscious.
Kurtz confirms that Lee is conscious and his brain is fully functional. Lee remembers that he
was riding his bike when the brake malfunctioned and he had an accident, and his brain stem
is cut off from the rest of his body. Lee wonders where his wife Molly is. House wonders if the
brain damage caused the crash rather than the other way around. Kurtz disagrees with House’s
diagnosis and orders him back to bed. Molly comes in to see Lee and he doesn’t want his children
to see him like that.
House calls in his team to analyze Lee and they run a differential. Thirteen wonders why he
was in Middletown and House says he was buying a rare guitar. House has some forms on hand
and gets Lee into the hospital’s MRI. They put a pair of MRI virtual goggles on him that make it
appear he’s on a beach. . . talking to House. Lee has a hallucinatory conversation about God and
he thinks House was sent there by God. Lee’s children are playing on the beach.
House checks in with Lee later and says he has a lesion in the central pons of the brain, a
lesion House believes is caused by cancer. House notes that if Lee gets sicker because of Kurtz’
antiviral treatment, it’ll prove Kurtz wrong. House is intrigued by Lee’s case and as they talk, Lee
has a seizure. Kurtz still disagrees with House but Lee signals by blinking that he wants House
to handle his case.
Taub and Cuddy meet House as he arrives with Lee, and Cuddy wants to know why House
was in New York. Taub tries to take his job back but House doesn’t believe he’s committed.
Wilson arrives and also wants to know why House was in Middletown. House again claims he
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was buying a guitar but Wilson doesn’t believe him, and suspects House is going to another state
to get drugs. House responds by claiming he was telling one of Wilson’s ex-wifes that he’s making
more money on the lecture circuit so she should adjust the alimony.
Kutner and Taub check on Lee and Taub admits he isn’t sure if he cares enough to try
and impress House. They notice something and go to get House. They suspect his condition
was brought on by alcohol but Lee doesn’t drink heavily. Later, Thirteen puts in a catheter and
prepares him for surgery so they can perform a brain biopsy to check the lesion. Lee’s wife and
children arrive and tell him they love him. Molly gets them out as Lee cries.
Chase performs the surgery and puts Lee under. Lee hallucinates himself back on the beach
playing with his children as House looks on. Lee still insists that God brought House to him
to cure him. Lee wakes up after the operation as Chase checks his brain function with yes-no
questions but Lee discovers he can no longer blink.
House and Foreman conclude that the surgery may have caused swelling and damaged the
nerves. The team goes back to differential and eliminates symptoms, and Taub suggests that
they hook Lee up to a brain-computer interface. Taub waits for Lee to move the cursor on a
screen with brain impulses, but gets no response.
Wilson pursues the matter of House’s visit to New York after learning his ex-wife in New York
was out of the country. House reveals he was going to see Foreman’s brother, who is in prison.
Taub talks to Lee about how he’s sick and scared of his career. As he gets up to leave, the
cursor moves and Lee recovers consciousness. They ask him about contributing factors and Molly
notes he was in St. Louis. Lee denies it and House tries to determine where he was. He figures
that Lee was having an affair but Lee knows that he wasn’t. He has no way to communicate that,
however.
Using yes-and-no questions and working with Molly, House determines that Lee was living
near his home and stayed with a friend. Kutner and Taub check the house’s basement where Lee
was staying. What Lee can’t tell them was that he was staying there when his business wasn’t
doing well, and he didn’t want to scare his family. Kutner determines Lee worked as a temp at
a factory making rechargeable cell phone batteries. They suspect heavy metal poisoning from
cadmium and go back to the hospital to use chelation to scrub the particles out of his body. As
Taub tends to Lee, he thanks the patient for proving his brain-interface idea was correct. Later,
Foreman talks to Lee about buying jewelry for Thirteen, but she didn’t wear it. Lee remembers
she wore it the other day when she inserted the catheter. When Molly sits with him, she wonders
why Lee didn’t tell her what was going on.
Taub goes to see House and insists he wants to keep his job. House says he needs to come up
with a good idea, and Taub insists the brain interface was his idea. House points out the credit
goes to the guy who made the machine and wonders why Taub is there. Taub admits that what
they do there terrifies him, but he has to overcome it to matter. House points out Taub hasn’t
done anything on his own to improve Lee’s condition and suggests that maybe he doesn’t matter.
Thirteen starts to close Lee’s eyes so he can sleep but notices the epithelium is torn. She puts
dye into his right eye and determines it’s ulcerative keratitis, not cadmium poisoning.
Cameron tends to House’s injury while House discusses the case. She suggests he do a LP
to narrow it down, and he wonders why he fired her. Later, Wilson checks and confirms that
House didn’t visit Foreman’s brother. He again asks House what he was doing in Middletown,
and House says he went there to check on the caregiver Wilson was sleeping with, the same
caregiver who takes care of Wilson’s brother.
Foreman does a lumbar puncture but Lee flatlines. He hallucinates himself on the beach with
House again, who informs him he’s about to be dead. They revive him while Lee admits to himself
that he can’t do anything for his family. Kutner interprets his beeps through the brain-interface
that he has an itch in his right foot, indicating liver problems. As they prepare to test his liver,
Kutner asks where Thirteen’s bracelet is. She explains that she wore it earlier when Foreman
didn’t notice, but she got some urine on it when she put the catheter into Lee. Kutner finds a
rash on her arm and concludes that there were rats in the basement where Lee was staying, and
he got a leptospirosis infection transferred via urine spread through a cut on Lee’s finger. They
start treatment and Kutner gets Lee to concentrate and move one finger.
House congratulates the team on coming up with the rat diagnosis and Taub takes credit
for it. Once he leaves, House wonders if Kutner is okay with the fact Taub stole the credit from
him. House figures that if Taub cares enough to lie, he’s good enough for the job. As House goes,
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Wilson hands him a cell phone and says he stole it. Wilson figures that House wouldn’t have lied
initially if he found out Wilson was dating a caregiver. He called the last numbers on House’s
phone and learned he was calling a psychiatrist.
House goes into Lee’s room and retrieves the cell phone he placed there to listen in on his
team. Lee wakes up and says that God must have sent House to cure him, but House says he’s
much less interesting now. As they go, Wilson wonders what has changed with House that he’d
see a psychiatrist, and figures Cuddy is the reason. House says he isn’t going back and erases
the phone number, and says the therapy didn’t work. Wilson warns he’ll end up alone, but House
just leaves.
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Simple Explanation
Season 5
Episode Number: 106
Season Episode: 20
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Monday April 6, 2009
Leonard Dick
Greg Yaitanes
James Wilson)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Bobbin
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Colleen Camp (Charlotte), Meat Loaf (Eddie), Mary Jo Deschanel (Julia), Ed Brigadier (Richard), Bob Rusch (Phil), Hart Boykin (Arthur),
Debbie Campbell (Katherine), Taylor Hardick (Rosabel), Liz Benoit
(Nurse Anne), Roger Narayan (Pundit)
HOU-520
The team deals with an older woman who has been tending to her
dying husband but is stricken down with an unknown disease that
threatens to kill her before her husband. However, they must overcome
their own emotions when a tragedy strikes one of their members.
Eddie lies dying of lung cancer as his
wife Charlotte looks on with his friends
and relatives who have gathered to pay
their final respects. Eddie asks to be
alone with his wife and then apologizes
for never taking her to Rio. Charlotte
says she loves him and always has. Eddie
says he’s ready but then Charlotte starts
to gasp for breath. She clutches at her
throat as Eddie calls for help.
House arrives at his office and Taub gives him the case on Charlotte. House is more curious to
learn why Thirteen and Kutner are missing. Kutner’s dog is sick and Thirteen is with a patient.
House is more interested in noting that Taub stole Kutner’s cure for their previous patient.
Charlotte did visit her sister in Hawaii, suggesting meliodosis, but it would have spread to Eddie.
Taub suggests a virus and House orders treatment, but Thirteen arrives informs them that
Charlotte is demanding to be released. The wife believes that Eddie got stronger when she stopped
breathing. House agrees to send her home but Taub has an idea. He brings Eddie in to his wife’s
room.
House is seeing a young girl, Rosabel, in the clinic. She appears to be insensate but House
realizes that she’s been drinking her mother’s mouthwash. The team informs House that Charlotte is recovering, but he isn’t interested. Instead he wants to know where Kutner is. They’re
interrupted when Charlotte has another respiratory attack and Taub can’t account for it.
Thirteen and Foreman go to Kutner’s apartment but get no answer. They go in and they
find. . . his corpse. Kutner has apparently shot himself in the head and is long dead.
The team meets and initially no one has anything to say. House finally wonders if Kutner
said anything to anyone about any problems he was having. He wonders if Kutner panicked and
starts to blame the team, and then admits he’s just trying to reach out to him. Thirteen says
Kutner didn’t reach out to them but Foreman blames himself for not seeing anything suspicious.
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Taub insists Kutner was an idiot and would rather deal with their patients. He thinks Eddie is
willing himself to live, but Foreman suggests they should pass it on to another doctor. House
disagrees and says it’ll never be okay. As forces the team back to differential, Cuddy comes in to
offer grief counseling and time off if they want it. The best they can come up with on Charlotte
is polyserositis and House orders treatment. As he goes to his office, Cuddy trails along and
House insists that he’s fine. Wilson is absent for the moment, and Cuddy wonders if House knew
anything House admits he didn’t. Cuddy apologizes for his loss, but House insists it isn’t his loss.
Taub goes to treat Charlotte and House decides to go with Foreman and Thirteen to see Kutner’s
parents.
Taub explains the anti-inflammatory treatment to Charlotte while Eddie tells her to imagine
that she finally made it down to Rio. Taub interrupts him to run one more test on Eddie.
Kutner’s adoptive parents Julia and Richard show House and the others photos of Kutner
and talk about his childhood. They ask if they had any idea why Kutner shot himself, and House
suggests that Kutner lived in a divided world. He says Kutner’s parents should have let him keep
his original idea and they didn’t understand him. Richard snaps at him but House continues,
saying Kutner just buried his pain deeper. Foreman tells him to go back to the hospital. He offers
his condolences and leaves.
Taub reports to House that Charlotte’s treatment didn’t take, but Eddie seems to be recovering. House notes that Taub didn’t ask about Kutner, but Taub insists Kutner didn’t want help.
House concludes that Taub tried to kill himself, but Taub refuses to be distracted. House realizes
that if none of the diagnoses fit, there’s only one diagnosis left. He believes she has hypertrophic
cardial myopothy, and they need to induce a massive heart attack to destroy the extreme muscle.
He finally admits he’s lying, to convince Charlotte to tell the truth. He explains that Charlotte is
faking so that Eddie will hang on. Charlotte admits it’s true and that they’ve become closer, but
then clutches at her leg in pain. House checks her legs and discovers muscle dissipation proving
that she’s not faking.
House goes back over the case, and admits that he was wrong about Kutner having racial
problems. Taub suggests MS and House orders a MRI to confirm, then tells Taub to do an echo
on Eddie to see if he’s improving. House confronts Cuddy and points out that Kutner had a
public streaking record. Cuddy figures he’s still deflecting and that Kutner was a lot like House,
but House says if he thought that way then he would have realized it’s better to live in misery
than die.
Thirteen discusses Charlotte’s 30-year relationship while running the MRI, and Charlotte
admits that Eddie never showed much affection toward her even though he loved her. However,
she didn’t need him to. She passes out and Thirteen runs to her aid. Meanwhile, Taub runs the
echo and Eddie hopes he has more time with Charlotte to do better by her. Taub is skeptical and
says it’s easier to think about it then to do it. He determines that Eddie’s heart hasn’t improved.
Cuddy goes to see Wilson and tells him that House needs him. Wilson thinks Cuddy just
wants someone to take care of House, and she explains what House said to Kutner’s parents.
Chase operates on Charlotte’s spleen so they can biopsy it for rheumatic arthritis. He wonders
why Taub is watching, and tells him to go home to mourn his friend. Taub insists he’s more
concerned about Charlotte who wanted to live. Chase determines that whatever Charlotte has is
spreading to her liver.
House goes to Kutner’s apartment and tries to find some clue to why he killed himself. Wilson
arrives and wonders if his friend is okay. House that Kutner kept pictures of his birth parents
and adoptive parents side by side, and had no reason to hide any other pain. Wilson suggests
they go get drunk but House insists he’s missing something. Wilson thinks he’s trying to solve a
puzzle, but House concludes that he didn’t miss something and Kutner was murdered.
Back in differential, House informs Thirteen and Taub that Foreman took time off. Thirteen
wasn’t aware that her boyfriend took the time off. Taub admits that Eddie isn’t improving, so
House turns to Kutner’s murder. He goes over possible motives and tells them to investigate, but
Thirteen refuses to chase ghosts. Taub wonders why House is pursuing the irrational, and House
turns back to Charlotte and tells them to test for an alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency. As Taub runs
the test, Charlotte asks to be with Eddie. She asks about whether someone can bypass the organ
donation registry, then tells Taub to transplant her heart into Eddie if she dies first.
Thirteen goes to see Foreman, who apologizes for wanting to deal with Kutner’s suicide on her
own like he’s dealt with other bad things in his life. Upset, she turns and goes.
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Cuddy discovers that House is going through Kutner’s e-mails. He believes that the man who
murdered Kutner’s birth parents, and who is due to be released for parole. Cuddy doesn’t believe
it and House concludes she won’t transfer Charlotte’s case because it’s the only thing holding
him together. She promises to find him another patient if he’ll cure Charlotte.
Charlotte goes into seizures but Taub realizes that she tried to kill herself so Eddie could have
her heart. They stabilize her but her liver is destroyed and she only has 24 hours unless she gets
a new liver. Taub insists she did it out of love but House doesn’t believe it. They can’t authorize a
transplant without a diagnosis, but House is willing to lie. Taub says they should be honest and
tell Cuddy the truth, just like Kutner would have suggested.
House decides to talk to Cameron, who realizes he want to think it’s murder because it lets
him off the hook. House suggests they get a partial liver transplant from Eddie, but she points
out that would kill him. House admits it would, and Charlotte would get the whole liver. House
believes Eddie would only do it if he loves Charlotte, and wanted to get Cameron’s opinion. She
explains it to Eddie, who agrees. Cameron warns that if they warn Charlotte by letting him say
goodbye, it may tip her off. Eddie realizes his wife will resent her but signs the donation papers
nonetheless.
Cameron points out to House that Eddie has nodules on his fingers, meaning he has something that could be curable. House doesn’t believe her and Cameron wonders why. House has
learned that the killer of Kutner’s birth parents died two months ago. Cameron says he didn’t get
a chance to save Kutner, but he can run the tests and save Eddie.
After running the tests, House tells Eddie that he is suffering from cardiac blastomycosis
brought on by a fungus infection. It’s rare but curable, and his emotional state altered his body
chemistry and put him into temporary remission. Eddie refuses the treatment, saying he was
ready to die. He warns that if House won’t do it, he’ll go out after he’s released and kill himself
so they can take his liver then.
House explains the situation to Taub and Thirteen, saying if they agree to Eddie’s demands
they can protect the liver. Thirteen refuses to do it but Taub agrees, saying they’ve already had
one pointless death. However, Taub takes Eddie to Charlotte and explains the situation, then
asks her what she wants him to do. Charlotte passes out from fever as her white cells increase.
Taub insists he did the right thing by convincing Eddie to live. Nothing fits the symptoms and
House realizes that there’s a clue they don’t have. House goes to see Charlotte and demands
answers: she realizes that Charlotte didn’t go to Hawaii. She went to Rio, where she caught
visceral leishmaniasis caused by sand flies. Charlotte admits that she went to Rio with a friend
when she grew tired of waiting for Eddie to take her. House orders antimony treatment and has
Cuddy find Charlotte a liver.
Later, Cuddy gets the liver shipped but Taub tells her the treatment isn’t taking because they
diagnosed her too late. She’s leaving for Kutner’s funeral with the others, but Taub refuses to go
with her. She tries to console him, saying that Charlotte bought them time to save Eddie, but
Taub doesn’t think it gave her death any meaning.
Wilson confronts House, saying he is in pain. He’s worried that House is terrified of losing his
gift, and what he’ll do if he accepts that. House tells him to go to the funeral.
Cuddy, Cameron, Chase, Wilson, Taub, and Thirteen attend the Hindu funeral with Kutner’s
friends and family. Thirteen sees Foreman in the back, watching. Thirteen and Foreman are
among the pallbearers.
Eddie takes Charlotte’s hand and kisses it as she dies. He and Taub watch as she passes
away.
House goes back to Kutner’s apartment and wonders what he’s missed as he examines photos
of his life.
Foreman takes Thirteen’s hand.
Taub sits in the hospital corridor, alone and crying.
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Saviors
Season 5
Episode Number: 107
Season Episode: 21
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Thomas L. Moran, Eli Attie
Matthew Penn
Robert Chase)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Anne Dudek
(Amber), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Tim Rock (Doug Swenson), Lindsey McKeon (Franni), Parisa Fakhri
(Susan), Bruno Oliver (Paul), Jill Remez (Sandy), Grinnell Morris (Mine
Employee #1), Paul Benz (Mine Employee #2), James McAndrew (State
Trooper #1), Cory Blevins (State Trooper #2)
HOU-521
Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase to take on the case of an
environmentalist who collapsed in the middle of a protest. Meanwhile,
House wonders why Wilson is starting a new healthy diet.
Environmental protestor Doug Swenson has chained himself and his fellow
protestors to a truck at a coal mine. The
miner demand that they leave so they can
do their jobs, and Doug points out they
should worry about their kids. One of the
protestors, Susan, passes out from dehydration. Doug gives in and frees himself
and the others. However, when he tries to
get up he discovers that he can’t.
Cameron meets with Chase to inform him that she needs to push back their getaway. She
explains she owes a doctor a favor and wants to get his patient in to see House, and has to stick
around to make sure House doesn’t just throw it away once she’s gone. Chase says he needs a
break after Kutner’s death but she says once she’s satisfied House is on the case, she’ll leave.
Cameron takes the case to House, and he suspects that she wants to step into Kutner’s shoes.
Cameron insists that Doug isn’t faking it despite Taub’s doubts. House orders a vestibular caloric
test and tells Cameron to run it herself. She injects ice water into Doug’s ear to determine where
the balance problem lies. He asks her to remove the flowers from the room, complaining that
they’re treated with pesticides. Doug suffers from vertigo from the test and then throws up on
Cameron’s shoes.
House chats with Wilson in the cafeteria and admits he suspects that Cameron wants to work
with him. Wilson doesn’t believe it, then orders an egg-white omelet with wheat toast and no
bacon. House notices the order and wonders what’s going on. Wilson points out that House is
trying to avoid talking about Kutner, despite the fact that he’s wearing the watch Kutner gave
him as a gift. House dismisses his concerns and ignores Wilson’s tray of food.
House’s team wonder why House is making Cameron run the tests herself, and if he wants her
around to mother him. Cameron reports that the test results were negative. House is convinced
that Doug isn’t faking. Foreman suggests the possibility of a stress-induced carotid atherosclerosis and House orders Cameron to do a carotid doppler to see if his heart skips. As Cameron runs
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the test, Doug starts to hiccup and says he’s been doing it for about a week. Cameron leaves but
when Chase if she’s ready to go, she insists that the hiccups are a new symptom. He wonders if
she’s trying to avoid him, and Cameron says she has another reason but she can’t tell him what
it is. Chase agrees to wait for her.
Cameron reports to House, who admits that he’s hooked and tells her to go back to the E.R.
House wonders why she ran the tests when he’s not her boss. Cameron insists she cares about
the patient, and wants to help nurse the team back to mental health after Kutner’s death. House
doesn’t believe it, but doesn’t believe any likely explanation makes sense.
Cameron reports the hiccups to the team and House tells them to run the differential. Cameron
suggests organophosphate poisoning, but Taub notes that Doug is Scandinavian, and Scandinavians are more susceptible to MS. House tells her to do a lumbar puncture and Cameron gets
Foreman to help him. He wonders why she’s there and wonders if she wants Kutner’s position.
She says all she did was postpone a trip, but he points out she chose House over Chase.
Chase approaches Cuddy and asks if she’s discussed filling Kutner’s slot. He wonders if
Cameron has applied for the position but Cuddy says that she hasn’t spoken to her. He asks
if Cameron’s in love with House, and Cuddy says it’s ridiculous. He asks Cuddy if she’s in love
with House, and she says that’s even more ridiculous, but he notes she didn’t answer either
question.
House is going through the staff refrigerator looking for Wilson’s food and finds kale. A woman,
Franni, arrives and says she’s Doug’s wife. House notes that Doug claimed he was single and
she had to find a sitter for her son. When Franni says that Wilson told her where House was,
he confronts Cameron and accuses her of spying for Wilson. She points out that Wilson doesn’t
need her, and House agrees, noting his theory doesn’t explain Wilson’s new diet. They notice a
swelling on Doug’s neck, indicating leakage from the lungs.
Back in differential, the team go over the symptoms and Thirteen suggests progressive systemic sclerosis caused by exposure to solvents at industrial waste sites. House orders steroid
treatment and a workup to confirm, then takes Cameron off the case. Cameron asks and House
says he wants to see where Cameron goes when she can’t be with the patient.
Cuddy confronts Cameron and asks if she’s in love with House. Cameron figures she’s ”marking her territory” and Cuddy insists that Chase and Cameron are great together.
Franni wonders when Doug will stop his protest activities. He insists that he can’t quit and
that he’s protesting for everyone’s sons, not just his own. Franni is furious that Doug doesn’t
care more for their own son.
House visits Wilson at home and Wilson figures he’s there to search his kitchen to figure
out why he’s on a new diet. House has checked his medical records and determined Wilson is
healthy, so concludes that it goes back to Kutner. He suggests that Wilson is facing his own
mortality with Kutner’s death. Wilson counters by showing all the fatty foods in his refrigerator.
Foreman calls to tell House that Doug is screaming in pain from agony in his leg. House suspects
an infection that they’ve made worse with the steroid treatments, and orders new lower-order xrays to confirm.
Taub and Thirteen run the x-rays and Thirteen wonders if Taub talks to his wife. Taub figures
she’s talking about Foreman, and she admits that Foreman didn’t want to talk immediately after
Kutner’s death. They’re interrupted when they discover that Doug broke a femur while laying
in bed. House suggests some form of cancer caused by carcinogen exposure. House has Chase
repair the break while they prepare Doug for chemo treatment. Foreman interrupts the surgery
to order a bone biopsy. When Chase wonders what Cameron thinks, he’s surprised to learn that
Cameron is no longer on the case.
House talks to Cameron and wonders why she’s still interested, and notes that she’s avoiding
home because she thinks Chase isn’t there. She doesn’t know that House called Chase to the
hospital to perform the surgery on Doug. He accuses her of emotionally walking away from
House, and Cameron explains that she found where Chase hid the engagement ring. She doesn’t
want him to ask as a knee-jerk reaction to Kutner dying. House just walks away.
A wife is at the clinic and her domineering husband explains her symptoms. House tries to
suggest the wife may have used a hot tub somewhere. Cuddy interrupts to ask what’s going
on with Cameron. House rules out two possibilities and Cuddy is satisfied, and House figures
that she was worried Cameron was after House. When House turns to answer the husband,
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Cuddy slips away. House gives up and explains that the wife has a skin infection caused by
contaminated hot tubs, and it’s clear she doesn’t use them with her husband.
Foreman informs Doug and Franni that the bone biopsy proved negative for cancer. He checks
Doug’s leg and discovers that he’s bleeding out. House insists they go ahead with chemotherapy
despite the fact it will weaken Doug’s immune system. Taub suggests an alternative: they give
Doug an insulin-like growth factor to accelerate the growth of tumors so they can find them.
House agrees and tells them to go ahead.
House goes to Wilson’s office and says he’s lost his mojo and is missing clues and failing to
come up with treatments that even Taub can figure out. Wilson insists that it’s good, because it
means he’s distracted by Kutner’s suicide and the fact he can’t find a reason for it. Wilson offers
him some carrots and leaves.
Taub explains their new treatment and Franni is less than happy. Doug admits he’s exposed
himself to a lot of bad stuff and wants his life to mean something. His heart stops and they’re
forced to resuscitate.
Chase goes to see Cameron in the cafeteria and demands answers. She admits it looks bad,
and Chase wants to know why he should trust her. Cameron asks for a little more time but
Chase refuses, saying it has nothing to do with him any more. He tells Cameron to let him know
when he can pick up his things, then leaves.
With the new symptom of tachycardia, the team isn’t able to come up with a differential. House
orders the insertion of a defibrillator to keep him alive so they can finish their tests. He then goes
to the vending machine where Wilson is buying a snack. House admits he’s out of ideas, but
then notices Wilson has put his money in but hasn’t selected anything. Wilson always puts the
money in and orders right away. House notes there’s nothing healthy in the machine and Wilson
gets gummi bears, which House hates. House figures it out: Wilson has been screwing with him
the entire time. He’s been eating healthy to keep House from mooching food from him. Wilson
explains that he tried to withdraw and change his life after Amber died, and it was a mistake. He
figures House needs a dose of reality to get back to normal himself. House starts to walk away,
then gets an idea.
Taub explains the defibrillator insertion technique to Doug and Franni. House arrives and
asks if they have a garden, or a window box, or any plants. House notes that all marriages suck,
and the Swensons’ marriage is no exception. Doug realized that Franni was leaving him and
bought her commercial roses for their anniversary. She wasn’t there and he tossed the flowers.
House realizes that Doug got a sporotrichosis infection from the thorns. The steroid and insulinlike treatments spread it to his heart and bones.
House goes to see Cameron and tells her that she is having commitment issues because she
lost her first husband, and her worries have come up again because of Kutner’s death. He figures
that she wants to force Chase to dump her so she doesn’t have to. Cameron goes to see Chase and
explains what she was going through. She apologizes and suggests that he propose to her after
she ruined his planned proposal. Chase considers it, then gets done on one knee and proposes
to her. She accepts.
Franni kisses Doug goodbye and leaves for good.
House helps himself to Wilson’s French fries in the cafeteria.
Chase and Cameron give Cuddy the news about the engagement.
House is at home playing the piano. He looks up and sees. . . Amber. She congratulates him
on the fact he’s back to normal and isn’t losing it after all.
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House Divided
Season 5
Episode Number: 108
Season Episode: 22
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Liz Friedman, Matthew V. Lewis
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Chase)
Ryan Lane (Seth Miller), Clare Carey (Ellie Miller), Tresheille Edmond (Laura), Becky O’Donohue (Karamel), Noah Schuffman (Immigration Officer #1), Italia Ricci (Immigration Officer #2), Jamie Sorrentini (Stripper), Andray Johnson (Referee), Jorge Gonzalez Borrelli (Deaf
Coach)
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A deaf 14-year old wrestler suffers from hearing problems during a
match, but his mother refuses to okay cochlear implants. Meanwhile,
House’s insomnia proves a curse. . . and a blessing.
Seth Miller, a 14-year-old wrestler, is
going into the ring. His girlfriend and
translator Laura encourages him. His
mother, Ellie, is wearing a deaf pride shirt
and cheering him from the sidelines. He
takes on his opponent but clutches at his
head when he suddenly ”hears” loud explosions.
House is at home trying to sleep but
his hallucination of Amber is keeping him
awake. He insists she’s brought on by insomnia, but she wonders why he’s hallucinating Wilson’s
dead girlfriend. She suggests it might be guilt over Kutner’s suicide. Later, House staggers into
the conference room and the team brings him up to speed on Seth’s case. Seth went deaf at age 4
due to meningitis, and Thirteen wonders why he doesn’t have cochlear implants. House suspects
a seizure and has them run tests, even though Amber, representing his subconscious, doesn’t
agree with him and talks about the limp leading the blind.
House goes to get a prescription for sleeping pills from Wilson, and finds him with Cameron.
Wilson hastily closes the file they’re reviewing and Amber notices it. She also notices Wilson gave
him the prescription without a lecture. House knocks over a paper cup and grabs the file, and
discovers it contains flyers for bars. Cameron admits she asked Wilson to plan a bachelor party
for Chase. House cheerfully volunteers over Cameron’s objections.
Thirteen and Foreman do the seizure tests and Thirteen notes that it’s admirable that Seth
doesn’t want cochlear implants as a matter of pride and culture. Foreman doesn’t buy it. They’re
interrupted when Ellie informs them that Seth has gone blind in one eye.
House remembers Amber’s early comment. The team suggests a variety of tests and House
tells them to go ahead. He grabs his sleeping pills and goes into an exam room, then wonders
how ”Amber” knew he’d go blind. She explains how the stress of the seizure test would cause
inflammation, causing the blindness. Amber then suggests he play loud music. House takes a
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boom box to Seth’s room and puts it on his chest. Seth admits he can’t feel the vibrations in his
hands, indicating neuropathy. House tosses the sleeping pills away, admitting the case just got
interesting.
Foreman wonders how House knew about the neuropathy, and Amber reminds him about
juggling pins and Seth’s wrestling match. House realizes that Seth lost his last three matches,
indicating a loss of balance. Foreman suggests that it might be increased ICP from a brain tumor
and Amber agrees. House backtracks and Taub suggests NF2 cancer may have caused Seth’s
deafness. House tells him to test via MRI and then has Thirteen and Foreman check out a
strip club for him. As Thirteen slips a stripper some money, Foreman wonders why House is so
insistent on doing the bachelor club. He suspects that House is trying to get Chase into slipping.
Taub explains that they can remove the NF2 cancer and restore Seth’s hearing. Seth wants
them to remove the tumor but leave him deaf. Seth doesn’t want to lose his school and his
girlfriend, but Laura and Ellie point out he has no choice. The tests show no cancer. House does
notice a slight bowing of the ventricle that might indicate a tumor. Taub doesn’t agree and the
only way to confirm is to drill into his brain. Amber suggests they look at Seth’s old x-rays from
when he broke his nose.
Wilson is explaining to Chase how he and his third wife eloped was to avoid House’s bachelor
party for him when House arrives with the x-rays. As Wilson examines them, House suggests that
a bachelor party is a test of Chase’s commitment. Wilson confirms the bowing of the ventricle is
new, but they still need a brain biopsy to confirm. Wilson tells House he won’t go to the bachelor
party because he always gets embarrassed at them. House says it’s okay and leaves.
Chase performs the brain biopsy while House and Amber watch. Amber suggests they get
the stripper from Wilson’s party because she might bond with Chase. Chase wonders who he’s
talking about, and then tells House there’s no sign of a biopsy. Amber goads House into telling
Chase to put in a cochlear implant. Chase wants to wait for the paperwork but House points out
putting in an implant wouldn’t help him diagnose Seth, so he can’t be lying.
Later, Chase checks the implant while Ellie goes to Cuddy to complain. House warns they
can’t remove it so soon after brain surgery. Amber points out that Ellie is taking the news calmly
and House concludes that she wanted Seth to hear, but didn’t have the guts to make the call
herself. Once she leaves, House insists that Seth is opting into a handicap and that’s why he told
Chase to put in the implant. Cuddy orders Foreman to handle the case and House accepts it and
leaves.
House begins to wonder to Amber why he did it. Back in differential, the team determines that
Seth is suffering from a fever. Meanwhile, Amber tries different candy in an attempt to get House
to remember the name of Wilson’s stripper. They wonder if Laura gave Seth Epstein-Barr and
Foreman orders tests. House goes to see Wilson, who explains that House ordered the implant
because he was trying to be nice. Amber doesn’t believe it. When Wilson insists he isn’t going to
the bachelor party, House just says he has no control over Wilson and leaves.
Seth argues with Ellie about removing the implant, but reconsiders once he hears her say his
name. Taub comes in to run the test for Epstein-Barr and Seth urinates uncontrollably onto the
bed.
The next morning, House has everyone try alcohol-infused ice cream samples for the bachelor
party. Taub suggest sarcoidosis but Foreman notes the symptoms came on to fast. Amber reminds House of a med school case about a wrestler with damaged kidneys brought on by steroid
treatment. The team’s voices start to fade out as Amber notes that the kidneys failed when the
patient was laying down, at night. House tells the team it’s Seth’s heart and orders tests to
confirm.
In his office, Amber explains that House’s hearing is fading because he’s getting better at
ignoring everything that doesn’t matter. Chase comes in to talk about the bachelor party, and
tells House to kidnap him for the bachelor party. As House tosses Chase some ice cream, he
finally remembers the stripper’s name was Karamel.
Laura talks to Seth and says how great it is that he can hear, and wishes she could have one.
Seth insists nobody needs one, but Laura says it will open up a new world for him. Seth doesn’t
agree. Laura asks where the bathroom is, and Seth notices how she sounds for the first time.
Thirteen says it’ll take time for his voice to sound normal.
House is guzzling energy drinks when Taub and Foreman tell him that all the tests show
Seth’s heart is fine. Amber insists it isn’t, and that the arrhythmia is hiding. House suggests
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they put Seth on a tread mill, but Foreman refuses because of the possibility of bleeding of the
brain. Foreman has Taub and Thirteen run a thyroid panel. Once they’re gone, House tries to
figure out how to runs the stress test on Seth. Amber suggests asthma meds to make the heart
beat faster, revealing the arrhythmia. However, as House prepares the shot, Seth screams in pain
after he deliberately rips out the implants. The stress reveals that he has arrhythmia.
House takes over again as they try to figure out what would account for the arrhythmia.
They’re unaware that Amber is holding up a lit lighter. House orders them to do a VQ scan for
embolisms. House goes to the morgue to practice his alcohol lighting routine. He sets a corpse
on fire instead. Amber suggests that all of the symptoms have one thing in common: heat. House
calls Foreman and tells him he has Uhthoff Phenomenon, indicating MS. He orders interferon
treatment.
As Foreman, Cameron, and Chase leave, two immigration officers arrive to arrest Chase because his work permit has expired. Cameron quickly realizes what’s going on and tells Foreman
to keep Chase out of trouble.
The bachelor party goes off, with House’s flaming drinks and strippers. Wilson comes home
to discover that House is using his house for the party. Karamel the stripper comes over to talk
Wilson and Thirteen are soon taking shots off of Karamel. House is drinking in the tub and
Amber joins him. She points out that he works better alone. I the main room, Foreman and Taub
get Chase to take a shot off of Karamel. He smells strawberries. . . and goes into anaphylactic
shock. The others take him to the hospital, but House realizes that he knew Chase was allergic
to strawberries. He also knew Karamel used strawberry body butter. He wonders if Amber was
trying to kill Chase, which means he was trying to kill Chase. Amber points out he’s not a big fan
of other people’s happiness. He’s interrupted when the hospital staff call to tell him that Seth is
dying of lung failure, meaning that MS isn’t the cause.
As the team arrives at the hospital, House goes to his apartment to get some sleep. House
believes that Amber is dangerous, but answers the phone. It’s Cuddy, who wants House to help
treat Seth. Amber suggests eosinophilic pneumonitis but House dismisses it out loud, and then
says he’s going to bed and hangs up. Foreman wonders if it makes sense, but Thirteen notes that
House ruled it out because it would make the patient’s larynx hoarse, and they wouldn’t notice
that in a deaf person.
Foreman and Thirteen go to Seth and remove the breathing tube. His larynx is clean, but
Foreman notices tobacco stains on his teeth. Seth admits he used chewing tobacco to cut weight
for wrestling. Foreman realizes that Taub was right: it’s sarcoidosis. The chewing tobacco’s toxins
held the condition at bay until he stopped. They order treatment and Seth will recover.
House goes to see Cuddy to get sleeping pills. She notes that the police arrested Wilson when
he started wandering the streets drunks. Cuddy gives House the pills but asks for an explanation.
House admits he hasn’t gotten a full night’s sleep since Kutner killed himself, and then leaves.
Ellie tells Seth she’s going to have the doctors repair the implant. When Seth refuses, Ellie
insists she’s his mother and it’s her call.
House wakes up after a good night’s sleep. He figures he’s over his insomnia, goes to the
bathroom to wash up. . . and discovers that he’s still hallucinating Amber.
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Under My Skin
Season 5
Episode Number: 109
Season Episode: 23
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Monday May 4, 2009
Lawrence Kaplow, Pamela Davis
David Straiton
Robert Chase)
Jamie Tisdale (Penelope), Alex Schemmer (Jeremy), Charles Gavoian
(Maury), Pamela Shafer (Company Manager), Scott Dawson (Ballet
Master), Joey Gaynor (Len), Shelli Boone (Molly), Courtney Clonch
(Burn Unit Nurse)
HOU-523
While House tries to cope with his insomnia, he takes on the case of
a ballerina whose skin begins to fall off after treatment following the
collapse of her lungs during a performance.
At a theater, a ballet company begins their rehearsal and the lead dancer,
Jeremy, complains to the conductor that
it’s too fast. They try again and he dances
with the lead female, Penelope. As Jeremy
lifts her, he collapses with back pain.
However, Penelope finds herself unable to
breathe as her lungs collapse.
House is at home listening to his hallucination of Amber play the ukulele. He
refuses to listen to what she has to say, pointing out that she tried to kill Chase. Foreman arrives and House tries to plead a day off, but Foreman warns that Cuddy will fire House if he
doesn’t come in. In differential, House suggests a pulmonary contusion, while Amber suggests
dehydration hiding an infection. House goes with the dehydration and orders antibiotics.
Wilson is meeting with a patient when House barges in and tells him that he’s hallucinating.
Wilson hastily takes him outside away from his patient. House wants Wilson to double-check
everything he does in differential, but initially refuses to say who he’s hallucinating. Finally,
House gives in but lies and says it’s Kutner.
Chase and Cameron are enjoying a meal at her place and she tells him she still has her dead
husband’s sperm. She still wants to hold onto it, warning that anything could happen, and wants
a specimen from Chase as well.
As House undergoes monitoring while he tries to sleep to eliminate possible causes of his hallucinations, Amber advises him to tell Wilson he’s scared, but House refuses. The next morning,
they confirm it isn’t sleep apnea. Foreman reports the tests are negative and House suggests a
water injection to test her lungs. Wilson and Foreman note it’s radical but House tells him to
run the tests unless he has nothing else to attempt. House goes with the next item on his list of
causes for his hallucinations.
Penelope undergoes the tests, but as Taub holds her down, he slips and some of her skin
comes off. House figures that the antibiotic treatment caused the necrosis. As they conduct
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more tests, Wilson comes to see House, who wonders where Wilson was when House proscribed
antibiotics. House wonders if he might have MS, which is causing his guilt and shutting down
his limbic system.
House goes to see Penelope, who is insistent on the fact she get to dance again. House apologizes but doesn’t feel any better, so he concludes its MS. Foreman notes that the artificial skin
they’ve applied to her is too thin. As they take Penelope in for a biopsy, Chase brings up the sperm
with Foreman. Foreman warns that Cameron married a dying guy and has issues, and Chase
can’t leave her. Penelope starts to crash and they revive her. In differential, the team wonders
why Wilson is there and Foreman concludes House doesn’t trust himself. House orders Wilson
out. They need to take a MRI of the heart when it’s not moving. Meanwhile, Amber points out
that either Vicodin or mental illness are causing House’s hallucinations. She then cuts herself,
bleeding on the table. House suggests they temporarily stop Penelope’s heart to MRI it. However,
it will take four minutes to MRI the heart and three minutes until brain damage goes in.
House tells Wilson what he’s doing and says that ”she” is trying to kill the patient. Wilson picks
up on the female pronoun, and House finally admits he’s seeing Amber. However, he admits that
he can’t come up with any better ideas then what Amber is providing. Wilson tells him the LP test
is negative but his Vicodin levels are too high. House argues for electro-shock treatment for the
pain, but Wilson warns could it prove lethal, or worse damage his rational mind. House refuses
to consider anything else and Wilson agrees to make some calls.
Chase explains the procedure to Penelope and they begin. Meanwhile, House calls Wilson and
suggests they try insulin shock, which is marginally less damaging than electro-shock. House
argues that he’s been popping Vicodin for years but the hallucinations are more recent, so Vicodin addiction can’t be the cause. House tells Wilson to get up there in the next two minutes
because he plans to give himself an insulin overdose.
The time limit on brain damage to Penelope arrives and Chase begins to revive her, just as
Foreman sees something on the scan.
House notes that Amber is scared because the insulin will eliminate the hallucinations, and
then injects himself. She disappears and House smiles in satisfaction. . . before going into shock.
Wilson arrives and calls the nurses.
Wilson is there when House wakes up, but House is satisfied it worked. Wilson points out
insulin shock wasn’t the next rational step, but he has to admit House checks out. The team
calls House back and argue about whether they saw something on Penelope’s heart. House goes
to watch over Penelope, with Jeremy at her side, and he notes that nothing changes. He figures
that Jeremy is too devoted and feels guilty, because he was cheating. He suspects Penelope has
gonorrhea which disseminated to her heart, where it wouldn’t show up on the blood tests but
would appear on the MRI. He has them test Jeremy to confirm the diagnosis.
House is celebrating alone at a bar when Foreman calls to confirm that Jeremy tested positive
for gonorrhea. However, Jeremy insists he didn’t cheat on Penelope. House realizes he was lucky,
not right, and looks over to see Amber singing and mocking him. Wilson picks him up and offers
to take him to a rehab center. House agrees and they go back to his apartment to pack. Foreman
calls and Wilson takes the call. Penelope is septic, but Wilson tells Foreman that House is off
the case and hangs up. House wonders why he doesn’t feel scared even though his life is falling
apart. Amber notes they’ve always found a way to cheat. House insists the rehab won’t work, but
Wilson says he has no other choice. House says good night to Wilson and leaves.
The team tries to figure out a way to treat Penelope and Foreman suggests dopamine, but it
could kill her. They finally agree to treat Penelope with the dopamine. Meanwhile, House goes
to Cuddy’s office and tells her that he’s quitting his position. Cuddy doesn’t believe him and he
insults her baby. As she storms off, House tells her he’s hallucinating. She comes back and offers
to check him into rehab, but House warns he’ll figure out a way to get the Vicodin. He asks her
to oversee his treatment because she’s on to him and know his tricks. Cuddy agrees and calls
her babysitter to make arrangements.
As Chase operates to remove the abscess, Penelope’s blood pressure holds steady. However,
necrosis appears in Penelope’s fingertips and toes.
At his apartment, House undergoes withdrawal under Cuddy’s supervision. She’s already
cleaned out most of his secret stashes, but he offers to tell her the rest over Amber’s objections.
Cuddy holds his hand as he goes through excruciating pain.
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Chase explains to Penelope that they removed the abscess in her heart caused by the gonorrhea, but the dopamine shut off the blood to her extremities and they’ll have to amputate.
Penelope refuses and the team wonders what to do. Chase suggests they should accept her decision and Jeremy won’t override her. Foreman begins to leave, insisting the case is over, but
Chase notes that if they failed it won’t just be because of House but because they failed.
As House vomits into the toilet, he notices a pill on the floor. Amber suggests he send Cuddy
away and take the pill. He crawls toward it while Amber suggests that if he take it, he doesn’t
think he deserves anyone. Before he can get to it, Cuddy comes back in and flushes the pill down
the toilet.
Taub comes up with an idea: using burn treatment to rejuvenate the skin. Much to Chase’s
astonishment, it works.
The next morning, House wakes up. He wonders what happens afterward and if he’ll be able
to work. Cuddy insists he’ll be fine but House notes she’s biased. He accuses her of lying and she
says she hasn’t lied to him in 20 Years. He asks her what she lied about 20 years ago, and she
admits she wasn’t signed up for the class they shared together. Cuddy admits she was interested
in him then and she’s there now for personal reasons. House notes that they’re alone and Amber
has disappeared.
Penelope wakes up and wonders where Jeremy is. Taub tells her that he left and wonders if
she’s okay.
Chase tells Cameron he can’t give him her sperm, and he has no doubts about their future
together. Cameron warns that she isn’t sure and Chase says he’ll wait until she is.
As Cuddy prepares to leave, House thanks her and then they kiss.
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Both Sides Now
Season 5
Episode Number: 110
Season Episode: 24
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Monday May 11, 2009
Doris Egan
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Chase)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Kal Penn (Dr.
Lawrence Kutner), Anne Dudek (Amber), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Ashton Holmes (Scott), Maria Thayer (Annie), Jennifer Crystal Foley
(Rachel Taub), Carl Reiner (Eugene Schwartz), Scott Conley (Warren), Sheila Daley (Paula), Richard Sabine (John), Jason Boegh (Leo),
William Woff (Minister), Adam Trahan (Pirate Stripper)
HOU-524
House takes on a case of a patient with two different personalities
as a result of having the left and right part of the brain operating
independently. Meanwhile, he deals with the aftermath of his night of
sex with Cuddy.
At a fancy restaurant, an obnoxious
man, Warren, is discussing his food when
someone hits him with a roll. At the next
table, Scott is complaining to his wife
Annie about how Warren is a blowhard.
When Annie notes her food is too spicy,
Scott tries it and says he can’t notice anything. Warren comes over to confront him
about the roll and Scott apologizes, and
then uses his left hand to spill water on
Warren’s pants. Scott says it wasn’t him, and then collapses with a bleeding eye.
House wakes up in bed in his apartment and smiles. He looks around and no one’s there.
However, when he goes to the bathroom he finds a tube of lipstick on the counter and lipstick on
his cheek.
Cameron brings Scott’s case to Taub, who warns that it isn’t interesting enough for House.
He asks her about the wedding but she says there’s a glitch with it. She insists House will be
interested in Scott’s case and explains that he had his corpus callosum cut to relieve seizures,
but wasn’t able to adjust to the split in his brain. She has Scott explain that when he goes
shopping, he has extra items that he doesn’t remember putting there. He insists his left hand
hates him.
House comes into differentially, singing cheerfully. He warns them he’s in a good mod and
largely pain free. Taub describes Scott’s case as alien hand syndrome and House notes that the
right side of the brain is the unimportant one, while the left one has the math and analysis
abilities. Foreman and Taub disagree. Thirteen suggests a variety of symptoms while Cuddy
comes in and says she needs to talk with House. He tells the team to search the house and
eliminate possibilities. In House’s office, Cuddy tells him that she’s his boss and anyone who
gets close to him gets hurt. She’s telling him that she’s going to focus on that, tells him to accept
it or leave, and walks out. House considers her tube of lipstick in his hand.
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House goes to see Wilson and tells him that he slept with Cuddy and is Vicodin-free. Wilson
is pleased to hear it but tells House that she needs to talk to Cuddy.
Thirteen and Taub are searching Scott’s apartment and Thirteen admits she’s a little freaked
out by Scott. She thinks everyone is two people, and wonders what it means about identity. Taub
isn’t impressed, but notices fungus on the ceiling. He asks Thirteen about Chase and Cameron’s
wedding and she notes it’s about sperm. Taub talks to Chase, who figures Cameron is planning
for failure.
House waits for Cuddy in her office and takes thermal images of her, and then leaves.
Annie brings Scott’s items from home and admits she’s trying to hard to get her other self to
like her. His left hand grabs a can of deodorant and throws it across the room. Thirteen gives
him anti-fungal medicines and Scott says goodbye to Annie. . . and then slaps her with his left
hand. He tries to apologize but she leaves. When he goes after her, his legs give out.
In differential, House is considered Thirteen’s lipstick while the team notes that they’ve eliminated fungal infection. House suggests a meningioma that is reconnecting the two parts of the
brain. Foreman concludes they can test for it. Meanwhile, House shows Wilson the thermal imaging photos and claims she became more heated in House’s presence. He tells Wilson not to get
involved and wants to learn which time Cuddy was lying. Wilson tells him to be an adult for just
once in his life if the relationship is important to her.
The team administers tests to determine if Scott’s brains have reconnected. He can’t say the
word ”candle” but can draw it, proving there’s no communication between the two parts of the
brain. As House comes in, Scott stands up and complains that he’s cold. They ask him to stay
and they realize that House’s diagnosis is wrong. House notices Scott scratching at his side and
goes into the chamber, where he determines that Scott’s liver is failing.
Wilson is making a report to Cuddy but insists there’s nothing else to talk about. House comes
in with a cup of coffee and asks permission for a liver biopsy to confirm sarcoidosis. Since it’s
not a dangerous procedure, she figures he’s doing it to irritate her but warns it won’t work. She
tells him to do his clinic hours but House refuses. She keeps her calm and suggests he try again.
As House leaves, he switches his coffee cup for hers.
As Thirteen and Taub begin an ultrasound, Scott apologizes for sweating so much and his left
hand slaps Thirteen away. Scott comes up with an idea and asks for music. Meanwhile, Wilson
suggests to House that he’s using his relationship with Cuddy to distract himself from the pain.
House says he found oxytocin in her coffee cup, indicating emotional involvement. House paid
a guy to steal her water bottle so he could determine her baseline levels. Now House plans to
get her to lose her temper so he can see what’s beneath her façade. Wilson admits that it’s great
that House is committing himself to someone but wonders if he wants it to succeed. They’re
interrupted when an old man, Eugene Schwartz, comes up from the clinic. He tells House that
Cuddy sent him up. Wilson ducks out and Eugene explains that he squawks.
Scott plays air guitar to music to distract his left hand, but Thirteen notices splinter hemorrhages beneath his fingernails. He starts vomiting blood and his BP drops. House goes to the
locker room to avoid clinic duties and meet with the team, and Taub suggests it’s a clotting issue. All their tests prove negative, but Thirteen suggests the sweat might be significant. House
suggests pancreatic cancer and tells them to test.
Eugene interrupts Cuddy’s meeting with donors to give her a stool sample, on House’s advice.
Scott prepares to check out after Annie tells him she’s leaving him. They warn him about
the fatality rate of pancreatic cancer but Scott grabs a can of deodorant with his left hand and
throws it again. It then starts removing his clothing and Taub points out his right brain knows
he needs to stay.
House is considering Cuddy’s cup and realizes there’s something wrong with it. Cameron
comes in to try to get ideas about how to handle Chase and House tells her to get rid of the
sperm. Taub tells them what’s happened and House goes to Wilson to get him to counsel the
two sides of Scott’s brain. They take him to the MRI room and test Scott while Wilson tries to
get Scott to determine what his right brain wants. Wilson suggests Scott communicate with it by
talking out loud to it. Scott is skeptical but House notes his right brain likes the idea because it
hasn’t moved inside the MRI chamber.
There’s no sign of pancreatic cancer but House insists that in its early stages it could still
generate clots. Eugene calls House about his squawking, and admits Cuddy gave him House’s
phone number. He notes the cancer is too small to find, so they use scorpion venom and infrared
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paint to open up his pancreas. The team warns that opening up his pancreas could create new
clots which could destroy his brain, but it’s possible they might only destroy one side.
As Chase performs surgery on Scott, Cameron comes in. He goes out to talk to her and she
tells him that she is prepared to destroy the sperm and get married. Scott’s BP drops and they
find no signs of cancer.
On the lobby balcony, Wilson confronts House and wonders if he really wants Cuddy. He
insists he’s for House getting together with Cuddy, but warns if he doesn’t treat it seriously then
House or Cuddy will get hurt. House just watches as Cuddy kicks a pirate stripper out of her
office. She calmly walks back to her office and as House looks down, he gets an idea. He goes to
the OR and tells Chase and Foreman that the clots are coming from the heart. The cloths were
caused by intermittent arrhythmia and they weren’t watching when it happened. He tells them
to do a transesophageal echo to confirm. Once they do, they close it off but have to determine
what damaged the heart.
Back in differential, Thirteen suggest Cushing’s and House orders a suppression test. He then
turns back to consider Cuddy’s coffee cup. Meanwhile, Annie comes back to see Scott and give
his doctors an idea: his left hand angrily slapped her when she brought him a deodorant can,
and then it threw the can. Taub and Thirteen check it while Annie goes to Scott’s side. . . and his
left hand strokes her face.
House takes the coffee cup to Wilson and points out there’s no lipstick on it. Wilson wonders
what House’s left brain is telling him and what House wants: answers, or Cuddy. Wilson tells
House to make Cuddy angry, and he hasn’t even been trying hard yet.
Chase talks to Cameron and points out she doesn’t want to destroy the sperm. He notes she’ll
never be ready but she doesn’t have any doubts. Cameron just doesn’t want to kill the last bit of
the man she loved. He tells her not to do it, and Cameron admits that she never cancelled their
wedding plans either.
House goes to the lobby and calls everyone to attention, then announces that he slept with
Cuddy. Cuddy gets word of it and goes after House. She tells him he’s gone too far and fires him.
Eugene, watching the whole confrontation, suggests Cuddy really does like him. House explains
he has acid reflux that affected his larynx. House gives him a prescription but then notices that
Eugene is moving his belt and complaining about soreness. House realizes he has pancreatic
cancer, which causes acid reflux. Taub arrives to tell House that the deodorant is known to
cause seizures and Scott may never have needed split-brain surgery.
House goes to see Cuddy and asks if she uses two different types of lipstick. He wonders if
she overreacted to the other night and she admits she is. Cuddy notes that they’ve reached the
final straw and they never could have a personal relationship. House realizes that she’s been
overreacting to him insulting her daughter, and Cuddy says she walked out after he did it.
House remembers their conversation when he went to ask Cuddy for help kicking his Vicodin
habit. He insulted her daughter and then she walked away. House reaches into his pocket for
Cuddy’s lipstick. . . and finds a bottle of Vicodin. He drops it in shock and remembers what really
happened: he went home alone and took Vicodin. Instead of making love to Cuddy, he simply
went to bed alone. The next morning, there was no lipstick on his face and he thought the Vicodin
bottle was Cuddy’s lipstick. The entire time he’s been taking Vicodin without realizing it.
As House comes to terms with what he remembers actually happened, a hallucination of
Amber appears and notes that he made up a nice story about himself. Kutner appears and tells
him it’s too bad it isn’t true. House tells Cuddy that he isn’t okay, and she takes him to Wilson’s
office.
Everyone goes to Cameron and Chase’s wedding. . . except Wilson, who drives House to a
psychiatric hospital and checks him in.
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Season Six
Broken
Season 6
Episode Number: 111
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired:
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Summary:
Monday September 21, 2009
David Shore, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Foster (II)
Katie Jacobs
Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory
House)
Franka Potente (Lydia), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Juan ”Alvie” Alvarez),
Megan Dodds (Dr. Beasley), Derek Richardson (Steve/Freedom Master), Curtis Armstrong (Richter), Andrew Leeds (Dr. Medina), Angela
Bettis (Susan), Jack Plotnick (Hal Connor), Artemis Pebdani (Diane),
Alex Désert (Jay-Bird), Kim Rhodes (Female Donor), Andre Braugher
(Dr. Darryl Nolan), Dale E. Turner (Duane ”Stomp” Milbratt), Ana
Lenchantin (Annie ”Silent Girl” Bohm), Albert Malafronte (Garney),
Sloan Robinson (Nurse Safer), Henderson Wade (Orderly), Meghan K.
Bradley (Nurse Valez), Harrison Forsyth (Ben), Rickey G. Williams (Ski
Cap Guy), Audrey Kelley (Pretty Woman)
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House engages in a battle of wits and wills against the attending physician in charge of his detox program. When he starts to lose, House
resorts to blackmail to gain the upper hand.
House wakes up in his room at the
Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital, takes his
pills, and goes through the agonies of
withdrawal. Finally he packs up his
clothing and prepares to check out, insisting the dry heaves are done and he’s
fine. House insists that he’s there voluntarily but the nurse says he has to check
with the doctor. He goes in to see the
doctor, Darryl Nolan, who points out that
House is legally free to go but suggest he stays. Nolan points out that he hasn’t had hallucinations from Vicodin until the recent deaths of two colleagues and a father. He suggests that House
check into the long-term ward. House refuses but Nolan warns that House can’t get his license
to practice medicine back unless he does what he says.
The intern takes House to Ward 6 and then meets with Dr. Beasley, who tells him that he’ll
have to participate in individual and group therapy, and take his medicine. House is more interested in finding out how to make everyone miserable. Beasley is unimpressed. House goes to
his room and meets his new roommate, Alvie, who insists that he’s fine and refuses to take his
meds. He immediately tries to request a new room and Alvie tags along. The staff ignores House
and deals with another patient, Hal, who demands medicine. The staff refuses to hand any over.
Nolan and his staff wonder if House is actually going to act out but Nolan warns that any threat
could be real and they should be concerned.
Beasley begins the first group session and introduces House and Alvie to the others. House
notices one patient who tried to kill herself and makes wrist-slitting jokes, and Beasley has him
taken to a private room.
Later, House goes out in the yard where the other patients are playing basketball. Beasley
asks if he’s ready to play nice and insists that she’s trying to help him. House is skeptical and
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Beasley says that he can get out if he’s honest and tries to deal with people. House considers what
she’s said and agrees, and then gets up and plays basketball. He analyzes all of the opposing
players and plays to their fears and insecurities until they leave, and then takes his shot. As he
leaves, Beasley insists that it is yard time but House leaves anyway. As he goes upstairs, he finds
a female visitor, Lydia, playing the piano for her catatonic sister-in- law, Annie. House is unable
to get a reaction from the patient and notes that her head is only bobbing in time with her pulse.
The orderlies arrive and take House away.
Later, Beasley comes to visit House and asks if he plans to stay locked away, or if he’s going
to try another strategy. House goes to the rec room and apologizes to everyone, admitting he
had misdirected anger. He rouses the patients up against the doctors by pointing out they’re not
allowed ping pong paddles or a table net. Nolan comes in and admits House is right, and hands
out ping pong paddles. When House objects, Nolan says he’s a natural leader and suggests he
can either use his abilities to help the patients and himself, or to fight the doctors and see if
they’re as stubborn as he is.
That night, House is in his room with Alvie and thinks about a new plan. The next day, they
introduce a new patient in group therapy, Steve, who thinks he’s a superhero, Freedom Master.
House goes to the window while Steve notices the comatose patient, Annie, and insists she needs
someone to save her. Beasley calls a break and goes over to talk to House. She suggests he put
his next plan on hold and see what happens, and let her do her job. House is busy watching
Nolan driving away with a woman outside. House notes it’s too late: he’s already come up with a
new scheme.
The patients are on the yard and House asks Alvie if he has third-floor privileges. Alvie confirms that he does and House asks him to break into Nolan’s office and use his desk calendar
to find out the name of the woman he met with. While he waits in the rec room, House realizes
the piano is unlocked and plays a few notes. He goes over to Annie while an intern comes over
and locks the piano. The orderlies catch Alvie and bring him back, but he meets with House later
and tells him that Nolan’s entire calendar was blacked out. House needs to call out but the only
patient who has phone privileges is Hal. They go to the rec room and start a fake fight. Beasley
has the interns pull House off and give him a pill to sedate him, and then take him back to his
room. Once they’re gone, Alvie sneaks in and House reveals he didn’t swallow the pills. He then
gets to the phone and calls Wilson, and asks him to run the license plate. Wilson tells him to do
what he’s supposed to do but House insists Nolan has screwed up something to get in the lousy
position he is, something he can use for blackmail. Wilson informs House that Nolan called to
tell him to help House get better and ignore any requests he made, and then hangs up. House
goes back to his room and admits to Alvie that he has no choice but to cooperate... or at least
appear to cooperate.
House starts trying to do whatever is necessary to get points: cooperating with patients, taking
his medicines, participating in group therapy. The patients play liar’s poker and House takes his
pills... and then makes sure not to swallow.
Later, Lydia is back playing piano for Annie and House insists that she isn’t hearing anything.
Lydia explains that Annie played cello for the Philadelphia Philharmonic and House suggests that
Lydia play the cello for Annie, and Lydia agrees.
House meets with a new doctor, Dr. Medina, who notes that House and Alvie are friends again
after the fight, and their stories about the fight don’t add up. Medina also points out that House
isn’t suffering any side effects from the meds he should be taking. House seemingly tries to bluff
and offers to take a urine drug test, and Medina calls him on it. They go to the restroom and
House insists on going into a stall while Medina watches from outside. Once alone, House goes
into the stall where Hal is waiting, sitting on the toilet with his feet up. Hal pees in the cup for
him and House comes out and gives it to Medina.
House goes back to playing poker while Medina runs the test and then apologizes to House.
He then calls Steve over and asks him to move the piano. House asks why he’s testing Steve’s
delusion and Medina insists that he needs to deal with his delusion. House insists that Medina’s
trying to break the man and Steve starts to panic. Medina finally tells him that his wife is dead
but Steve insists that they put her voicebox in the storage closet and he can save her. When
Steve tries to break into the room, Medina calls in the interns to take him away.
Later on the yard, Alvie warns House not to think too hard and step away from the hate.
House wonders what the difference is between cooperating and pretending to cooperating, and
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blames himself for standing by as Dr. Medina demolished Steve’s psyche. They’re called in for the
closing ceremonies and Beasley congratulates Susan, the one patient that will be leaving. House
realizes that Steve isn’t there and notices Dr. Medina nearby. He asks the doctor what happened
to Steve, who says that he isn’t able to take part. House goes down the hallway to Steve’s room
and tells him that he has to be out there with everyone else. Steve doesn’t say anything and
House notices that he’s catatonic, and blames Medina. Nolan arrives and asks House to talk
with him in private.
In the office, House insists that Medina screwed Steve up, and notes that he’s a higher level
than Susan. He wants to address his issues as an out-patient but Nolan refuses. House reveals
he hasn’t been taking his medicines, which proves that he is sane and rational. Nolan offers him
a pill and tells him to lick it, and House realizes that they’ve been giving him sugar placebos. He
tells House to let him do his job and stop fighting the system. House goes back to his room and
admits to Alvie that he’s out of plans.
Later, House looks out the window and sees Lydia drive up with a cello in her trunk. When
she comes in, House greets her and offers his help to bring it up. He suggests they ask Steve to
bring it up, noting it would help him feel better about himself. As Steve moves the cello, House
asks why she visits Annie five times a week and she wonders if he considers compassion a crime.
When Steve is still depressed, House asks Lydia for her car keys so he can drive her around and
let him feel like he’s flying. As they drive, House wonders why Lydia is so nice to him and she
says that he thinks he has a good heart. House explains that he’s kidnapping Steve and stealing
her car, and she asks to get out. He drops her off and leaves with Steve.
House takes Steve to a carnival and takes him ”flying” on a jet lift. Steve finally cheers up
and admits it’s the coolest moment of his life. They go back to the car but Steve gets up on the
parking garage edge and thanks House and then jumps off.
Later, Nolan tells House that Steve’s lucky to be alive but he has severe injuries. He blames
House for reinforcing Steve’s delusions to hurt Nolan, and House doesn’t care about the truth or
Steve or anyone else. Nolan informs House that he’s transferring him out but House asks him
not to and admits he needs help.
House meets with Nolan for individual therapy and wonders what they need to do. Nolan tells
him he can talk about whatever he wants. The only way they can figure out what in House’s life
is irrelevant is to talk about whatever he wants. House admits he is sick of being miserable and
Nolan says they need to figure out how to get him to happy. He gives House SSRIs for his mental
condition and Nolan wonders if he thinks he’ll lose his edge if he takes drugs. House considers
the medicine and Nolan says he has to trust him, and House finally takes the drugs.
House continues with his regiment of drugs and Alvie wonders if he’s cheating. House insists
that he swallowed his pills but Alvie doesn’t believe him. He says that they finally broke House,
but House admits that he’s broken already and Alvie should worry about his own life. As House
goes, Alvie says he hates him.
Nolan comes to see House and brings him his suit. He asks House about his relationship with
other patients and House mostly analyzes their feelings toward each other, not himself. House
insists he’s had relationships but Nolan points that he’s screwed them all up, and asks House
to trust people. He has House dress and they go to a hospital charity party, and he tells him to
open up. House starts chatting with a donor, insults him, and then admits he’s taken advantage
of his one friend. He then admits that he’s gay and Nolan is his lover. The donor quickly leaves.
Lydia is there and points out he isn’t gay. He then sits down with a female donor and claims he’s
a philanderer. Lydia comes over and claims House is her husband, forcing her to apologize. The
woman gives in and lies, admitting she tried to hit on House.
House sits outside and Nolan asks how he’s doing. House admits that he screwed up but
Nolan notes that the lesson was to teach him how to trust, and no one ratted him out for being
a jerk. Lydia comes over and asks what’s next. He suggests they just talk and wonders why she
isn’t mad he stole her car. Lydia’s says it was a nice thing to do and says that while what he
did was misguided and irresponsible, it was still nice. She then explains that she was Annie’e
best friend but Annie started pulling away. She married Annie’s brother because he was the only
other one who was going through the same thing that she was. He stopped visiting his sister,
but Lydia couldn’t stop because she misses Annie as she was. She gives House a kiss and then
leaves for the night.
As House returns to his room, Alvie asked what happens. House admits that it was fun.
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In therapy, House tells Nolan that they kissed and admits that kisses are good things. Nolan
notes that Lydia is married and the situation is complicated. He also knows that House has spent
the last 12 hours trying to think out what the kiss meant. House asks about the woman Nolan
met and the psychiatrist accuses him of deflecting. Nolan refuses to be deflected and pursues
the matter, and House admits he doesn’t know how his situation with Lydia will air.
Lydia comes to see Annie and House is there. He asks why she kissed him and Lydia says
that she likes him and felt it was a nice way to show it. House starts playing the piano and
the nurse brings Steve past in a wheelchair. In therapy again, Nolan asks why House values his
failures more than his successes and wonders if he accepts if there’s nothing he can do. He tells
him to acknowledge failure, move past it, and apologize. House doesn’t think it’s enough and
Nolan figures that he thinks that he has to suffer for the suffering he inflicts. He tells House to
apologize and feel better, and learn to let himself keep feeling better.
House goes to see Steve but can’t bring himself to say anything. Beasley starts a group session
and tells them that they’ll be holding a talent show. She tries to encourage everyone to participate
and tries to get Steve to respond. He doesn’t, and House asks why she thinks he’s going to
respond. He insists that they have to make things better and then realizes that he can save
Steve. He goes to the storage closet where there’s a music box, and realizes Steve was looking
at it when he talked about his wife’s voice coming out of a box, and he thought he could cure
Annie. House convinces Beasley to let him give Steve the music box and puts it in Steve’s hands.
He tells Steve that he’s healing and he needs to speak but Steve remains catatonic. Nolan comes
in and calls a break, and tells House that he’s trying to fix instead of moving on.
Later, Lydia comes in with piano music for House to play. He asks her what their relationship
really is and Lydia insists it’s just two people having fun. House notes that either it ends or it
doesn’t end, and either way they get hurt. Lydia insists that everything ends but they can enjoy
the beginnings. House says he can’t do it and she says that now she’s unhappy and it’s not
better. House walks away and leaves her sitting alone.
In group therapy, Diane worries about undergoing ECT treatment and House tells Diane to
do the treatment. Alvie accuses him of being an ass and Beasley tries to get them to move on.
She asks Alvie if he’s written down a song for the talent show but he insists that he has to do it
spontaneously. Medina arrives with a note for House from Nolan. It’s a day pass. House goes to
the hospital and finds Nolan at the bedside of his father. He wants House to look at his father’s
chart and provide a consult. The doctors don’t think his father will recover and Nolan wants a
second opinion. House confirms their diagnosis of a lacunar infarct, converted to a hemorrhagic
stroke, and figures that Nolan knew that. He analyzes Nolan, figuring that he wanted someone
there to give him confirmation that he’s making the right decision to shut down his father’s
life support. House deduces that at some point Nolan made a mistake and lost everything, and
House is the closest thing he has to a friend. Nolan tells him to shut up and stop playing games.
House considers the matter and then takes off his coat and sits down with the psychiatrist.
Later, House returns to the hospital and finds Lydia sitting there, crying. He apologizes for
pushing her away and admits he does that when he’s afraid. Lydia tells him that she’s crying
because she’s pathetic. She brought Annie’s cello in case she wakes up for the show. He offers
her a shoulder to cry on and they start to slow dance. They go back to his room and make love.
The patients put on their talent show and Beasley finally calls Alvie up. He starts his rap performance but freezes up. House helps him out and Alvie calls him up as the audience applauds.
The two of them perform to the delight of their fellow patients and Lydia.
In single therapy, House asks Nolan how he’s doing. The psychiatrist thanks House for being
there for him and asks what he wants to talk about. House says things are actually going good
for him.
House goes to see Steve and tells him that he’s sorry. He explains that he was trying to prove
a point and put him in a dangerous situation he wasn’t capable of handling. Nolan watches
as House admits it was his fault. Steve doesn’t respond and House wheels him over to the med
booth. As he goes he notices Annie, still catatonic. House puts Steve next to him and Steve hands
her the music box. Annie takes it and opens it, listening to the music. She thanks Steve and he
says she’s welcome.
Later, Lydia arrives and House greets her and tells her he has a surprise. Annie is playing the
cello for the staff and patients.
At the next closing ceremony, Annie is the patient leaving. House goes to see Nolan and
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questions whether Annie is ready to go back out into society. Nolan explains that her family is
moving to Arizona and putting her into a rehab facility there, and that he just found out himself.
House asks for an overnight pass and Nolan says he’ll do it if House insists, but he knows what
he’s thinking and he knows he hasn’t thought it through. He asks House to stay and talk but
House insists on getting the pass.
House takes a taxi to Lydia’s house and rings the doorbell. Her son Ben answers the door
and wonders who he is. Lydia comes and sends him to bed, and he asks what she’s doing. She
explains that her husband’s business is in Phoenix and they can move now that Annie is doing
better. House doesn’t want her to go and she doesn’t want to go either, but she can’t leave her
family. She apologizes for not saying goodbye and then goes back inside.
Nolan goes out to his car and finds House sitting nearby. He explains that Lydia left and he’s
lost. Nolan sits down with him and agrees to give him his license back. House isn’t impressed
but Nolan explains that House connected with someone else strongly enough to miss them, and
he talked to Nolan instead of hiding behind Vicodin. Nolan tells him to come inside and get some
sleep, and he can say his goodbyes tomorrow. The next day, they perform their closing ceremony
and congratulate House on his departure. House hugs Alvie and then smashes his face into the
cake.
As House walks to the bus stop, Alvie watches from the window and then goes the med window
and tells Beasley that he wants to get better. Outside, House gets on the bus and heads back to
his job.
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Epic Fail
Season 6
Episode Number: 112
Season Episode: 2
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Greg Yaitanes
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allision Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr.
Robert Chase)
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Rick D. Wasserman (Vince), Freda Foh Shen (Cecile), Andre Braugher
(Dr. Darryl Nolan), Barry Pearl (Dr. Paulson), Wai Mui (Lee), Brett
Gilbert (Roy), Mike Kirkland (Dr. Felker), Corie Vickers (Instructor)
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House returns to Princeton Plainsboro, announcing he will make big
changes in his life. Meanwhile, House’s team can’t diagnose a new patient who’s obsessed with posting each and every one of his symptoms
over the Internet.
Vince and his employees Roy and
lee are playing on a virtual reality roleplaying battle game and go on an attack
raid. They lose Vince in the game and remove their VR helmets and check in the
office. Vince’s is sitting on the couch and
says that his hands are on fire.
At the ER, Thirteen runs NCV and
blood tests and can’t find any sign of a
neurological problem. Vince demands to
see House.
House is tendering his resignation to Cuddy and Foreman. He notes that he’s discussed the
matter with Dr. Nolan and believes he needs to change his habits and environment, so he’s taking
a job in research. Cuddy wonders if he’s thought it through but House insists he can’t take the
risk. Once he leaves, Cuddy admits that the news is surprising. Foreman immediately puts
himself up for head of the department. Cuddy notes that the only reason they have a diagnostic
department is because they have House. Foreman insists he deserves a chance and Cuddy gives
in, warning him he gets one shot.
Foreman gives the news to Thirteen and Taub and they unpack the conference room and go
with a diagnosis of CRPS. Vince disagrees, checks on the Internet, and suggests mercury poisoning brought on by the sushi he eats constantly. When Thirteen notes it would be impossible
to eat that much fish, Vince disagrees and points out that the symptoms don’t completely match
CRPS. He asks them to run one blood test to check for mercury.
Foreman moves into House’s office when Cameron comes in to offer her congratulations.
She wonders how teammates are taking it and warns that it’s different working for people than
commanding them. She asks about House and Foreman admits that he’s surprised House acted
so responsibly. When she asks where Thirteen is, Foreman says they should be doing a spinal
stimulation but Cameron reports that they’re not. He goes to find them doing the mercury test
and points out that he didn’t agree to it. The test proves negative and Foreman goes to tell Vince
the results.
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House meets with Dr. Nolan and admits that the pain has flared up and ibuprofen isn’t
helping. Nolan suggests he get a hobby and see what Wilson likes to do.
Foreman meets with Vince, who asks for mercury chelation. Foreman warns that his symptoms aren’t enough to warrant it but Vince refuses to give in. Foreman says they’re done and he’ll
move on to his next patient. Vince changes his mind and they proceed with the spinal tap. As
Thirteen performs the procedure, Vince notes that Foreman strong-armed him. He admits that
Foreman reminds him of himself. Vince starts to have pain and can’t breathe, while his heart
rate climbs. They determine his lungs are filling with fluid.
Back in differential, analysis of the fluid reveals a pulmonary edema caused by the stress.
Foreman wonders if Vince is using cocaine to meet his deadline and goes to ask Vince if he’s
taking drugs.
House goes to a cooking class with Wilson and trying not to be a jerk. When Wilson burns
his meatballs, House suggests using vinegar and brown sugar to slow the cooking on the outside
and it actually works.
Foreman explains to Vince that the procedure didn’t go as planned. Vince wonders how long
he and Thirteen having been sex. It turns out that Vince has hacked Foreman’s profile page and
found a photo of the two of them together. They ask if he’s been using cocaine and Vince says
he cleaned up his act twelve years ago after his college roommate OD’d. Outside, Foreman tells
Thirteen to search Vince’s office. Thirteen tells him to forget using House’s tactics, or trying to do
the opposite. Foreman still insists they should search the office and talk to Vince’s co-workers.
Foreman tells her to meet her for dinner promptly at 7, even after she says she’ll be running late.
Cuddy goes to see House, who has Cecile, a member of his cooking class, over to practice.
She notes he seems good and he wonders if she’s there to grovel. House insists his decision is
final and assures her she’s not the reason why he’s leaving. Cuddy admits she’s going to miss
him and Cecile tells her to kiss him or leave.
Thirteen and Taub try out Vince’s video game and Taub notes that she’s been in a crappy
mood since they left the hospital. She wonders how Taub is comfortable with a co-worker now
being his boss and he admits he didn’t expect anything different. He tells her to go home that
night and break Foreman. They get into a shooting fight and Taub is overwhelmed by bird-like
creatures. Thirteen realizes what Vince’s problem is. Back at the hospital, they determine that
Vince dissected birds to capture their body structure for his video game. They figure he has
psittacosis that they can treat with antibiotics. However, Vince admits that he has had a threehour erection that is becoming increasingly painful. They realize that it isn’t psittacosis
Back in differential, they report to Foreman that they used a shunt to remove the blood.
Foreman notes that Thirteen skipped dinner and the shunt doesn’t require two persons, but
she claims she’s dedicated. Thirteen believes Vince has a brain tumor. Taub notes the tension
between them as they argue diagnosis but goes with Foreman’s diagnosis of thrombocytosis. As
they leave, Thirteen complains that Foreman was ordering her and it’s tough for both of them.
When Foreman says he’s under pressure, she tells him not to complain to his employees. They
note two doctors in Vince’s room and go to see them. Vince says he posted his symptoms on the
Internet and is calling in doctors. Foreman orders them both out but one of them, Paulson, suggests that Vince might have a brain tumor and they should do an MRI, and Foreman disagrees.
Vince asks Thirteen, who says to test both theories. He figures that she doesn’t believe Foreman’s
diagnosis or she would agree with him, and demands an MRI. Foreman angrily agrees to set one
up.
House is cooking when Wilson gets up for breakfast. He wonders if House is becoming a bit
obsessive. House admits that he’s still an addict, and then notes that he did it to distract himself
from the pain in his leg.
Thirteen goes to see Foreman as he runs the MRI. He accuses her of stabbing him in the back
but she says that she doesn’t like hedging her bet. When Foreman insists that she go with the
team opinion in public, she points out it was his opinion. She wonders if he wants her to lie and
Foreman points out that she would have done it for House. Foreman wonders if she’s doing it for
revenge and points out the MRI is clean. He tells her to treat for thrombocytosis.
Thirteen goes to see House, who figures she’d come over to complain about Foreman. He notes
that Cameron didn’t come by and figures Thirteen there with her own complaints. She admits
it’s a problem and wonders how she can get Foreman to tone it down. He tells her not to be a
coward and that Foreman has a legitimate fear of failure. House suggests that she give in so that
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she can be happy, and Thirteen wonders what’s happened to him. She tries his food and admits
it’s great, but House admits his leg still hurts.
Foreman goes to see Chase, who suggests that he fire Thirteen. He notes that her job is to
challenge Foreman and he can’t blame Thirteen doing what she’s supposed to. Foreman tries to
duck the problem and Chase warns it’s not a good idea.
Wilson comes home to find House eating ice cream at 8 a.m. in the morning. He admits he was
starting to obsess about it and decided to take a day off. House claims his leg is fine. However, he
soon meets with Dr. Nolan to admit his leg is killing him after he got worried, and he got worried
because nothing helps. Nolan says he let him out because House has the skills to cope, and tries
him to tell something else. House worries that nothing can work long-term and Nolan says that
he hast to be patient.
Foreman brings Thirteen a doughnut and apologizes. She apologizes back and they try to start
over. As they start to make love, the beeper goes off and they’re called into the hospital. Vince’s
lymph nodes have blown up and the thrombocytosis treatment didn’t work. Vince is putting out
a $25,000 reward to anybody who can cure him.
House comes home and finds a bottle of Vicodin that he hid away.
Back in differential, the team is overwhelmed with e-mails, phone calls, and faxes. Foreman
suggests they treat the disease and take all of the suggested diagnoses to Vince. They go through
them one at a time and warn that they could take forever going through all of them. Vince wants
treatment for amyloidosis because it got the most votes among his respondents. Foreman says
that they’ll run the test and when it comes back negative, he retracts the reward. Vince agrees
and Foreman orders the test.
Wilson returns home for lunch and House notes that he usually has lunch with Cuddy on
Tuesdays. House figures that he’s checking up on him and insists that he’s good. As he walks
out, Wilson notices that he isn’t using his cane.
Taub reports that the test results show deposits consistent with amyloidosis. He’s already
ordered treatment and Taub tells Foreman that he’s quitting: he’s had an offer from a friend to
work at his surgical practice. He admits that he started looking for a job when he learned that
House wasn’t coming back, and it’s nothing personally. Taub admits he thinks Foreman is doing
well, but he came there to work with House.
In bed, Thirteen insists that Taub is a jerk, but Foreman worries that Cuddy will shut them
down before they can hire anyone else. He wonders if he’s not ready for the job. Thirteen tells
him a story about her roommate in college, Lindsay.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy and tells her that he blocked the intake valve on his toilet so he could
test House’s urine. It’s clean of Vicodin but contains epithelial cells from a Labrador Retriever.
They realize that he’s using.
Thirteen goes to check on Vince and discovers that he’s gone. He’s run into the lobby where
he’s hallucinating a scene from his video game. He imagines a swarm of birds attacking him.
Foreman spots him and Vince perceives him as an alien. Vince grabs a coffee cup from a nurse
and throws it at Foreman and then runs for the elevator, only to come face to face with an alien
Thirteen. They try to restrain him and he has a hallucination of a giant bird creature bursting
in through the lobby window. As he collapses, they realize that he’s hallucinating due to a high
fever, which means he doesn’t have amyloidosis.
They put Vince into a cold tub but Foreman refuses to go back to the Internet. He suggests
light-chain disposition disorder and asks if Thirteen is okay with that. She agrees and Foreman
describes it. He warns that they can’t confirm the diagnosis and the only treatment is high-dose
chemotherapy. It could kill him, but Vince agrees immediately. Foreman realizes that he’s scared
and tells him that his career is riding on the case, but Vince’s life is more important.
Wilson and Cuddy confront House, who tells them he got a dog to pee in the toilet. They want
to know why his leg is feeling better and he offers them an immediate urine sample. Cuddy is
not amused.
Foreman is taking a shower in the locker room when he notices pruning on his fingers. He
orders Thirteen to stop the chemo and concludes that Vince has Fabry’s Disease. His fingers
didn’t prune when he was in the cold tub for an hour. Thirteen had already reached the same
conclusion and stopped the chemo on her own. They explain to Vince that the deposits in his
kidney were fats. Fabry’s makes them build up, choking his nerves and keeping his fingers from
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pruning. Thirteen admits privately that she realized the lymph swelling was caused by a reaction
to the contrast. She eliminated it after reading about it online when someone posted it.
Later, Thirteen comes in to see Foreman and congratulate him on Cuddy officially making him
head of the department. She apologizes for going behind his back and Foreman admits that he’s
mad but it’s stupid that he is. He figures she went behind his back because she didn’t want to
fight. Thirteen figure it’ll take time to adjust, and Foreman wonders if they won’t like each other
by the time they do adjust. He decides that it’s not going to work and she realizes he’s firing her.
House goes to see Nolan and admits that he slipped. Instead of taking pills, he went online
and read about Vince’s offer, and posted his diagnosis. His leg stopped hurting. Nolan admits
that maybe he was wrong about telling House to stop practicing diagnostic medicine. He suggests
that he can practice diagnostic medicine to eliminate his pain, but he can’t sit in a room alone.
House worries that he could revert back to his old ways but Nolan thinks it may be the best thing
for him.
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The Tyrant
Season 6
Episode Number: 113
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired:
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Monday October 5, 2009
Peter Blake (IV)
David Straiton
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron)
James Earl Jones (President Dibala), David Marciano (Murphy),
Garikayi Mutambirwa (Ruwe), Roger Aaron Brown (Joseph Ntila),
Christopher Fairbanks (Agent Bass), Kelly Scott (Ama), Jason Nash
(Long Hair), Jarell DuBose (Dibala’s Son)
HOU-604
House’s team struggles with an African politician who falls ill and decide if they want to help him after he’s charged for crimes against
humanity in his country.
An African ruler, President Dibala,
drives to visit his son at university
against the advice of his aide, Joseph
Ntila. Men in a black van cut them off and
Joseph draws his gun. One man gets out
and says he’s serving them with a civil
subpoena and then drives away. Joseph
assures Dibala they can ignore it but
Dibala simply stares at it for a moment
and then collapses, vomiting blood.
At Princeton, Cuddy asks Cameron and Chase to work on Foreman’s diagnostic team now
that he’s fired Thirteen and Taub has taken a new job. Chase admits it would be interesting but
Cameron points out that the patient is President Dibala, a ruthless tyrant suppressing an ethnic
rebellion in his country. Chase admits that’s what it’s interesting and Cuddy notes that Dibala
is a guest of the U.S. and scheduled to speak at the UN. She asks them to sign on and Cameron
reluctantly agrees.
As they go to see the patient, Foreman admits he knows it looks bad and it might force him
to break up with Thirteen, but there was no other choice. They arrive in the conference room
to find House already there. He admits he won’t have his license for a month and admits that
Foreman is in charge. Dibala suspects an assassination attempt but Foreman says that there
are no traces and recommends coartem treatment for malaria brought on for a bug bite. House
interrupts and notes that Foreman is rushing through the diagnosis because he’s rushing out of
the room because he’s mad at House. He tells House to say what he has to and House suggests
that it may be a poisoning attempt using dioxin. Foreman reluctantly orders olestra treatment
for dioxin and House says they should go to see Cuddy.
Cameron and Chase administer the treatment and Dibala notices from his accent that Chase
spent part of his childhood in England. Dibala notes that they had priests in the village where
he grew up, but they weren’t able to help his sister when she died of consumption.
Foreman complains to Cuddy that he fired Thirteen because he thought House was gone for
good. House admits that he needs diagnostic medicine in his life and offers to explain to Thirteen.
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Cuddy agrees to let him sit in unofficially. Foreman goes to see Thirteen and explains that he
won’t be in charge for long and offers her her old job back. She tells him that she doesn’t want
the job because she figures that he wanted to break up with her and used his new position as
an excuse. She refuses to talk to him about it or go out to dinner with him.
Chase meets with a follow-up patient, Ruwe. He reveals that Dibala killed his wife by ordering
his Youth Labor League to kill her and dump her in their yard. Chase tells him to talk to the UN
but the man insists that Dibala is preparing a final war to eliminate Ruwe’s people, the Sitibi,
and the UN will do nothing. Ruwe insists that Dibala can’t recover but Chase says there’s nothing
he can do.
House goes home and discovers that Wilson is eating chicken without garlic. House wonders
if he’s losing his sense of smell and notices that Wilson wasn’t wearing shoes two nights in a
row. He realizes something is up and pounds on the floor. Someone pounds back and Wilson
admits that his neighbor has been complaining since House moved in. Wilson warns that the
man, Murphy, is a decorated war hero who lost his arm and a complete jerk. However, he’s on
the condo board and Wilson wants to get his garden renovated. Cameron calls and interrupts,
telling House that Dibala is having a heart attack.
House returns to the hospital and diagnoses Lassa fever. Ribavirin can be used to treat it.
However, Foreman reports that Lassa fever isn’t found in Dibala’s country. The rash has disappeared, ruling out dioxin poisoning. Dibala hasn’t been anywhere that he would get Lassa fever.
However, House suggests that Dibala met with Liberian trade union members, and there was an
outbreak of Lassa fever in Liberia. Foreman gives in and orders ribavirin.
As Foreman administers the treatment, Joseph objects but Dibala overrides him. Dibala asks
if Foreman has a girlfriend and notes that Thirteen is standing in the hallway. She tells Foreman
that she’s been called in to interview at Harvard. However, she never sent her resume. Foreman
admits he called in a favor and Thirteen agrees to have dinner with him.
House comes back to Wilson’s apartment and finds Murphy in the hallway. Murphy realizes
that the cane is causing the banging noise and he can’t sleep. House tries a conciliatory approach
but Murphy ignores it and orders him to keep it down.
Dibala pages Cameron and tells her that he’s brought in a woman, Ama, who recovered from
Lassa fever two years ago. His own counselors have informed him that blood will serve as a
cure. Despite the fact they have Ama’s signed consent, Cameron. Cameron refuses and takes
it to Cuddy, who makes sure that Ama explains the situation. Ama says that she is Sitibi and
Cameron realizes that she’s being coerced, but Cuddy orders Cameron to go ahead because they
have no choice.
In the hallway, Chase notices a black orderly going toward Dibala’s room and realizes it’s
Ruwe. Chase yells an alarm and runs in to find Joseph brutally beating Ruwe. The U.S. agent,
Bass, pulls Joseph off of the assassin while Chase confirms that Dibala wasn’t hurt. He wasn’t
shot, but Dibala’s right eye is bleeding internally. Chase tends to Ruwe’s injuries, and Ruwe
explains that the woman he described earlier wasn’t his wife, but Dibala will now do the same
thing to all the Sitibi. At home, Cameron is worried that Chase was at risk. She tells him not to
yell a warning next time.
The next day in differential, the team determines that the bloody eye was caused by an enlarged lymph node, giving them another symptom. House refuses to speak, but starts miming
suggestions to Chase. He suggests an infection and Foreman disagrees, insisting it’s lymphoma.
He finally gives House the okay to speak and House disagrees, noting Dibala’s LDH is low. Foreman believes his liver function is making the LDH and orders a test for lymphoma. As House
leaves, he suggests that Foreman close the blinds. Puzzled, Foreman does so and discovers that
House wrote his prediction of lymphoma long before they had the meeting.
Wilson complains to House that Murphy ended up thinking House was a jerk. House insists
that he was polite and didn’t start anything, and suggest that Wilson blackmail Murphy with
the knowledge he didn’t serve in Vietnam. House explains that he saw Murphy holding private
medical insurance, not VA, and he’s too young to be a vet. He checked further online and there’s
no reference to him in the Vietnam records. House figures Murphy is faking it to get respect but
Wilson isn’t interested and tells him to write a letter of apology. When House insists Murphy is
a jerk, Wilson says that it’s easy to be nice to nice people. House needs to work on being nice to
jerks.
As Chase tests for lymphoma, he asks if Dibala is preparing to commit genocide against the
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Sitibi. Dibala insists that he’s trying to prevent genocide and admits his son hasn’t spoken to
him in years because of what the American papers say about him. When Chase asks about the
Youth Labor League, Dibala admits there have been abuses and he insists they won’t happen
again.
House goes to drop the letter off at Murphy’s door just as the housekeeper leaves to dump the
trash. House thinks about going inside for a moment and then puts the letter on the doormat. As
he turns to go, he slips on water from housekeeper’s bucket, ruining the letter. He tries to mop
up and ends up inside the room when he puts the letter on the desk. However, as House leaves
he notices a Canadian flag on the wall.
Chase checks with Cameron and asks how she’s doing. She assures him she wasn’t joking
about letting Ruwe kill Dibala. They argue the merits of murder vs. war and Cameron refuses to
feel any sorrow for Dibala if he dies. She then confirms that Dibala doesn’t have lymphoma.
House is waiting for Murphy when he comes home and points out that he’s sure that Murphy
is faking. Murphy explains that Canada sent troops to reinforce the ’73 accords and he lost his
arm trying to save a boy. Even now he suffers phantom pains. House is taken aback and quickly
leaves.
Cameron and Chase tell Dibala that he doesn’t have lymphoma and realize he can’t grasp
what he’s saying.
Foreman and Thirteen meet for dinner and she notes that Foreman could have stepped aside
and let Cameron or Chase take over. Thirteen insists she wants to understand him and asks
what he would do if he could do it again. Foreman insists that he made the right decision and
Thirteen gets up and walks away.
Joseph asks Cameron for her confidential medical opinion and asks if she believes Dibala is
thinking quickly. She admits that he’s already in decline and neurons won’t grow back. Cameron
notes that Joseph can’t trust anything that Dibala says. Chase reports that Dibala’s fever is
rising.
House diagnoses sclerodoma based on skin tightness on Dibala’s admission photos. Foreman
disagrees, insisting it’s blastomycosis infection. Chase agrees with Foreman and Foreman warns
that if they treat wrong, it’ll be too late to do anything else. Cameron tentatively backs House
but admits she doesn’t care if Dibala lives. House tells her to take a stand and Cameron backs
Foreman. When House threatens to go to Cuddy, Foreman tells him that it’s his department and
they’ll treat him for blastomycosis.
As Cameron prepares to give Dibala the injection, he grabs her hand and says that he knows
what she said to Joseph, and set it up for Joseph to take command. He accuses her of trying to
inject an air bubble and tells her it’s not so easy to kill when she has to do it herself. Cameron
injects the antidote into his IV and nothing happens. Chase tells Dibala not to touch her again,
but Dibala insists that he showed her a valuable lesson. He insists that Cameron is too weak to
act on her own beliefs, like so many other people around him. Dibala accuses them all of being
appeasers and Chase asks what he’s going to do about the Sitibi. The dictator says that he deals
with death and danger and Chase demands to know what he plans to do. Dibala insists he’ll do
whatever it takes to protect his country.
Wilson tells House that he convinced Murphy not to press charges in return for kicking House
out. He tells House just to stay out of it and believes that he’s changed enough to realize that.
Cameron orders a test for sclerodoma and admits that now that she had to make the choice,
she wants to keep Dibala alive. The test proves positive but Foreman warns that it only points to
sclerodoma but it’s not conclusive. Foreman stands by his decision. Cameron asks if Foreman
has told Foreman that he was wrong, and warns him that he retrenches due to insecurity when
he’s wrong on important decisions. If he’s wrong on this, the patient dies. Foreman okays their
treatment of steroids for sclerodoma.
House breaks into Murphy’s home and drugs him. He ties him up and gags him, apologizes,
and admits he’s having a setback. He then takes Murphy’s stump and places it in a box. He then
puts his hand in the box and shows him that he’s set up a mirror aside. It appears that Murphy
has both arms. House tells him to clench his real and phantom hand and then let them both go.
Murphy realizes that the pain is gone for the first time in 36 years and sobs in relief.
Dibala starts bleeding out into his lungs and Cameron and Chase try to stabilize him. They
discover a dozen ruptures in his heart and try to revive him, but Dibala flatlines and they’re
unable to bring him back.
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House comes to see Foreman, who isn’t sure if he killed him Dibala by sticking to his opinion
or abandoning him. House tells him he’ll have to discover but Foreman points out that Dibala’s
body is under lock and key and the government will be taking it back the next day.
Foreman goes to see Chase and tells him he couldn’t get into the morgue. However, he has
the sign-in sheet for the morgue and it shows Chase signed in just before Dibala died. Foreman
notes that one body had sclerodoma and accuses Chase of messing up Dibala’s test. Chase says
that Cameron had nothing to do with it and he couldn’t stand by and heal Dibala just so he
would go back and kill the Sitibi. He warns that if Foreman reveals what happened, Dibala will
become a martyr. Chase tells Foreman to at least warn him if he tells the police so he can tell
Cameron first. When Foreman wonders if Chase thinks he can get away without consequences,
Chase admits he doesn’t think that at all.
House returns to Wilson’s apartment and Wilson notes that Murphy called and sounded
happy. Murphy is approving the garden expansion and isn’t going to press charges even if House
stays. Wilson wonders what House did and House says that he was nice. He asks if Wilson wants
to know anything further and Wilson agrees to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Dibala’s son goes to the morgue to get his father and weeps over his body.
Chase goes to bed, looks at the sleeping Cameron for a moment, and tries to go to sleep.
Foreman burns the morgue sign-in sheet.
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Instant Karma
Season 6
Episode Number: 114
Season Episode: 4
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Thomas L. Moran
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Chase)
Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen)
Lee Tergesen (Roy Randall), Tanner Maguire (Jack Randall), Steve
Kramer (Ken), Michael D. Connolly (Oliver), M. K. Bakshi (Pete), Liz
Benoit (Nurse Anne), Cindy Lu (Nurse Diane), Tim Kahle (Dr. Johnson), Kavi Raz (Driver), Gigi Hessamian (Marina)
HOU-605
A rich businessman brings his son, who’s suffering from stomach
pain, to Princeton Plainsboro, and believes he’s a victim of his wealthy
position and success.
A wealthy businessman, Roy Randall,
is sitting in his garden at home contemplating his dog. He’s called to a meeting
at home where he ignores his advisors
and tells them to get ahead of pipeline oil
sales. He then calls the meeting to a close
early and goes upstairs. The doctor tells
him that his son Jack isn’t responding to
treatment and they need to get him to a
hospital. Jack says he doesn’t want to go
but Roy says it’s necessary and assures him he won’t die.
Roy goes to Princeton and tells Cuddy that he wants House. Cuddy says House isn’t available
and offers Foreman, but Roy won’t take no for an answer. Cuddy goes to House and the team
and informs Foreman that House will be handling the case despite the fact he still isn’t licensed.
She also tells Foreman and Chase to prepare the morbidity report on President Dibala. They’re
reluctant to do so but she overrides them. House orders a new series of tests from scratch.
Cameron begins the initial tests and Roy wonders where House is. She notices an odd lump
in his abdomen.
Foreman and Chase discuss the lab test and the fact that Chase stole blood from a corpse.
Chase points out that Foreman burned the only report and there’s no way that anyone can prove
they did anything wrong. Foreman warns that the medical board will scrutinize the case because
House’s team screwed up. House overhears them and wonders what they’re discussing. Cameron
reports that Jack is constipated and House and Foreman realize that he has a disease which is
restricting his colon function.
House meets with Thirteen, who is making travel plans to go to Thailand. He wonders if she’s
calling off her relationship with Foreman so easily, and she informs him that she isn’t coming
back. House notes that Foreman would just try to get her back and mess up the team, and then
walks away.
The team administers the treatment and the x-rays show improvement. However, Cameron
tests his abdomen again and notes that it’s getting larger. Jack has a seizure and Foreman
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orders treatment while Roy demands to know where House is. Foreman warns that the pressure
in Jack’s skull is growing and they have to drill, and needs Roy’s consent. As they take Jack to
the operating theater, Foreman tells Roy they need to do it now and Roy gives his consent. The
intracranial pressure drops just in time and Foreman admits to Chase that he has no idea what
happened.
The team goes into differential and Foreman realizes the dural layer in the brain was already
separated before the build up. House orders a check for brain cancer and congratulates Foreman
on spotting it.
As Thirteen takes a taxi to the airport for her trip to Bangkok, she calls to make sure someone watches her dog. The driver takes offense, thinking she’s suggesting he’s a thief. Thirteen
discovers that her reservation has been cancelled.
Cameron and Chase tell Roy about the suspected brain cancer and try to assure him that
they spotted it earlier and can still treat. Chase gets a page from Foreman and tells Cameron
that he can handle it on her own.
Thirteen goes to see House and accuses him of canceling the reservation to get her back.
House insists that he doesn’t want her back because Foreman is doing better now that he’s not
with Thirteen. When he claims not to remember where she was going, he points out it was stupid
of her to tell him the truth.
Foreman warns Chase that Cameron ordered a full test and the cholesterol levels of the dead
woman didn’t match Dibala’s by 20%.
Cameron wakes up in the morning to discover that Chase never came home.
Chase doesn’t believe that the morbidity board won’t worry about the cholesterol levels. Foreman refuses to lie again. Cameron comes in and gives them the biopsy result on Jack: it’s not
cancer. Back in differential, House suggests it’s cancer but somewhere other than the brain. He
notes that Chase isn’t paying much attention. Foreman tells Chase and Cameron to warn more
tests. House wonders why Foreman sabotaged Thirteen’s travel plans. Foreman denies doing it
and says he’s ready to move on, and House admits that he believes him.
Cameron wants to know what’s wrong and why Chase is denying it. He finally explains that
Foreman is worried about the tests that lead to Dibala’s death. Chase tells her not to tell Foreman, who is concerned about how it threatens his leadership of the team. They then give the
news to Roy, who blames himself. He explains that he inherited a successful pipeline business
and Jack is sick because of karmic payback. Jack has another seizure and they confirm it isn’t
due to intracranial pressure.
Back in differential, Chase suggests it may be an infection that’s resistant to treatment.
Cameron suggests abdominal epilepsy and it’s the best they have. Afterward, Chase tells Foreman to tell them he ordered drug treatment to account for the cholesterol levels. Foreman points
out that will just cause more problems and he plans to tell them the truth. However, he then goes
to Cuddy and says he isn’t going to testify because he’s busy with Jack’s case. Cuddy refuses to
let him get out of the testimony.
Cuddy goes to House and asks who hacked into Thirteen’s e-mail account and cancelled her
reservation. House denies it again and Cuddy seems to accept his answer. She wonders if House
really wants Foreman in charge, and House admits that he doesn’t want the power because it
leads to his psych problems. He insists that Foreman wasn’t the one who cancelled Thirteen’s
ticket. Cameron then pages House to show him spots that have broken out on Jack’s chest. Back
in differential, Foreman tells Cameron to run the tests and she wonders why Foreman is working
so closely with Chase. When Foreman says he wants to overprep for the presentation, Cameron
tells him to just be honest. House realizes that it’s DeGos Disease, which struck much later.
House goes to see Ray and explains that it’s untreatable. Roy insists that he’s wrong but House
warns that Jack only has a day at the most.
Chase goes to see Cuddy and tells her that Foreman can’t present the case. He starts to
explain that he faked the test but Cuddy is called away. She tells Chase to come clean if he
screwed something up and says it can’t be that bad.
Cuddy is called to Roy’s room, where his lawyers try to stop Roy from making a major business
deal that will cost him billions. House explains that Roy wants to get rid of his money to balance
out his karma and cure Jack. The lawyers warn that if the hospital doesn’t stop Roy from going
through with the deal, they’ll sue the hospital. Roy refuses but House notes that people get what
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they get and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Roy goes through with the deal and Jack
flatlines.
Thirteen comes to see Wilson and thanks him for breaking the law. She reveals that Cuddy
traced all the people who logged into her account and discovered that Wilson is the one who
cancelled the reservation. He finally admits he did it and tells her not to throw away her job
because of a bad breakup. She says goodbye and leaves. Wilson goes to see House and admits
he confessed, but House is sure that he lies. Wilson thinks House did it and wonders why. He
suggests that House wants Thirteen around but won’t admit it. As House comments that he
was born with a heart three sizes too small, he gets an idea. He tells Foreman that Jack has
obstructed blood vessels and orders heparin to see if he responds. As Foreman goes to prepare
the treatment, House points out that Thirteen went to everyone except Foreman to see who
screwed her up, but Foreman thinks that proves she is over him.
Chase checks on Foreman’s report and notes there is a new file on top that gives them a way
to account for the high cholesterol levels. When Foreman says he didn’t put the new file there,
they realize who did.
House wakes up and reads an article about Roy bankrupting himself. He goes to see Jack and
Roy. Roy’s son is recovering and Roy insists that what he did worked.
House goes to his office to find Chase waiting for him. Chase asks how he found it and House
figures that Dibala was taking something for his cholesterol. When Chase asks what he plans
to do, House says he’s more comfortable with murder than misdiagnosis and doesn’t plan to do
anything. Chase notes that no matter what, House is still in charge.
Foreman gives his presentation to the morbidity board while Cuddy and Chase watch.
Cameron wakes up, alone, and wonders.
Thirteen gets on the plane to Thailand.
Roy and Jack are together, happy despite the fact Roy has no money.
House sits in his office and considers what Chase said.
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Brave Heart
Season 6
Episode Number: 115
Season Episode: 5
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Lawrence Kaplow
Matt Shakman
Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison
Cameron), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric
Foreman), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr.
James Wilson)
Jon Seda (Donny), Alexandra Barreto (Cheryl), GiGi Hessamian (Marina), Samuel Carman (Michael), Samantha Colburn (Marta), Jack
Impellizzeri (Brian), Richard King (Boutain), Sanjay Madhav (Singh),
Taira Soo (Anne Ayala), Marcus Toji (Dex), Briana Venskus (Nona)
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A dying patient insists that he has the same disease affecting his heart
that killed his father and grandfather at the age of 40. Meanwhile,
House discovers that he has a hearing problem while trying to duck
student rounds.
Two police officers are chasing a crook
through a junkyard and up into the
nearby buildings. One of the cops, Donny
Compson, runs past is partner when he
trips and finds the crook on another
rooftop. Donny takes a running jump and
falls short, plummeting into the alleyway
below.
Donny is emitted into the ER with
a broken leg and minor injuries, and
Cameron says he’ll have to stay there for a few days. His partner suggests that Donny took
the jump because he doesn’t care, because he thinks he’s going to die soon. Donny explains that
his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all died at the age of 40 from heart conditions.
He’s been to cardiologists but they haven’t found anything wrong. Cameron says she can refer
him to a doctor who can.
Wilson discovers House lying on his couch and finally says he’s going to convert the study
into a bedroom. House notes it took him six weeks to notice, and figures Wilson doesn’t want
him to sleep where Wilson and Amber slept.
At the hospital, Cameron brings the case to the team but House dismisses it as coincidence.
Cameron says they need to take it because Donny goes through his entire life thinking he’s dead.
Chase and Foreman back her up and Foreman points out that House is still not the team leader
until he gets his license. As they leave, Chase sees the ICU and remembers how Dibala died
there. He goes back for what he claims is his watch to avoid Donny.
Cuddy comes in to see House and tells him he needs to complete 120 hours of rounds to
recertify. House points out that she doesn’t have to force him to do it for her to recertify, but
Cuddy refuses.
The team goes over Donny’s records. When they prove negative, they get the skeletons of
Donny’s ancestors. As Foreman and Chase examine the remains, Foreman points out that Chase
lied so he could avoid the ICU where Dibala died. Chase explains that he had a panic attack and
admits he’s crossed a line. Foreman tells him to tell Cameron but Chase refuses. Cameron comes
in and they start working.
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A woman, Cheryl, comes to see House and explains that she used to date Donny. He doesn’t
want to see her any more, but the woman explains that she had a son with Donny. House tells
her to call Foreman and leaves. At home, House tries to sleep in Wilson and Amber’s old bedroom
but starts to hear voices. He checks on Wilson and looks around but can’t find a source for the
sounds.
The next day, the team admits they can’t find any genetic indicators. Chase finds a note from
House saying he’ll be back in 120 hours. Foreman thinks they should get a bone marrow sample
from the boy. However, the boy Michael says he doesn’t want to. Cameron tells Cheryl she should
tell Michael and says it may be Michael’s only chance to meet his father before he dies.
House is with a team of interns reviewing a patient. He stages an emergency and watches
as the interns rush to try and treat the patient. The head doctor, Singh, asks him to stop and
House agrees. However, House then knocks the patient’s urine tube loose and asks Singh what
he’s learned.
Cheryl tells Donny that he has a son. Donny tells her he didn’t want a son and refuses to talk
to him, but Cheryl brings Michael in. The boy suggests they might do something when he gets
better but Donny refuses. He explains that his father died when Donny was Michael’s age, and
he’s just sparing his son the pain.
The team meets for differential and House complains that Cameron is misleading Donny.
House notices that Chase is distracted and invites him to walk with him. Chase claims he had
nothing to add but House says he’s distracted by his recent actions with Dibala. House suggests
Chase talk to someone and then goes to see Donny. He lies and tells Donny he has Ortoli’s
Syndrome, much to Chase’s surprise. Chase backs him up House proscribes a drug treatment,
and immediately gives Donny the pills. Donny thanks them and takes the pills.
Back at Wilson’s apartment, House tries to get to sleep but hears something. Foreman arrives
and pounds on the door, and explains that Donny died four hours after they discharged him.
Foreman comes in and explains what happened. House worries that he missed something and
wonders what’s wrong with him. Foreman had Donny’s body taken back to the Princeton morgue
for a post mortem.
A fully-dressed Chase wakes up Cameron and tells her he’s going to tell Cheryl about Donny’s
death in person. Cameron wonders why he’s still acting strange but he insists that he’s fine and
promises he’ll tell her if something is wrong. As he goes, Cameron tells him that she loves him.
Foreman begins Donny’s autopsy as House watches impatiently. House finally grabs a bone
saw and prepares to get to the heart, but Foreman warns he can’t do an autopsy without a
medical license. House reluctantly turns the saw over and as they cut the chest open, they
realize he’s bleeding. Donny suddenly screams and wakes up.
Donny passes out again and the team tries to figure out what’s going on. House is relieved
that they didn’t do anything wrong. He suggests that it’s something other than the heart. As they
discuss the case, House starts to hear voices again. He prescribes antibiotics for auto-immune
and quickly leaves off.
Cameron checks on Donny, who complains that his jaw aches. He realizes that he doesn’t
have Ortoli’s Syndrome. Donny figures that it doesn’t matter and he’s still doomed to die at age
40.
House undergoes a hearing test but the doctor can’t find anything wrong. She suggests that
he might have a psychosis. House goes to see Cuddy and tells her that he’s not ready to be a
doctor yet. He leaves without further explanation.
That night, Wilson comes home to find House sleeping on the couch again. He lies and claims
the heater in the bedroom is screwed up, and refuses to talk with Wilson about it.
Donny’s jaw continues to hurt. Once the nurse leaves, he grabs a clamp and pulls out the
tooth that’s hurting him. Once they’re notified, the team test and determine there’s nothing
wrong with the tooth. Cameron suggests brain cancer but Chase figure sit doesn’t connect to the
heart. Foreman tells them that House told Cuddy he wasn’t ready to go back to work. Cameron
suggests tumors that would cause bone cancer but Chase still disagrees, even though he doesn’t
have anything better. Foreman orders scans for the tumors.
House wakes up in the middle of the night and goes into the old bedroom. He hears more
whispering and finds a heating vent in the floor that’s the source of the noise. House traces it to
Wilson’s room, and quietly watches as Wilson talks to Amber.
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Cameron and Foreman scan Donny, and she asks Foreman what he knows about Chase lying.
Foreman tells her to talk to Chase.
Wilson comes out the next morning to find House sitting up. He says he hears whispering and
says he’s losing it. House tells Wilson he plans to check himself back into Mayfield and Wilson
just says okay and offers to drive him over. House figures that he knows and Wilson admits that
he talks to his dead girlfriend. He defends what he does, insisting that talking to Amber makes
him feel better.
House rejoins Cuddy and Singh on their rounds and says he’s ready to recertify again. She
argues with him outside and the interns figure they’re in love. House then joins Foreman and
Cameron, and notes that Chase isn’t there. They have nothing, but as House leaves he realizes
that Donny has a heredity condition, sensory autonomic neuropathy, type one, that confuses
pain signals in the brain. Cameron starts to administer the treatment but House says Chase
should do it. He goes to find Chase, who is sleeping in the office, and figures that he’s feeling
guilty to convince himself he’s still human. He tells Chase to get in the ICU and administer the
treatment. As they do so, Chase asks if Donny ever killed anyone. Donny admits he doesn’t but
the cops he knows who have, have problems and getting help didn’t benefit them. As Chase
leaves, Donny complains of pain and uncontrollable urination.
The team goes back to differential and Foreman suggests Donny’s liver may be gone. House
orders penicillin but warns they may only have one more chance if the treatment fails.
Chase goes to confession and admits he killed a man. He says it was the right thing to do but
the priest says it’s not Chase’s decision to make. Chase wonders if the priest is concerned it sets
a bad precedent if the priest forgives him for killing the worst people on earth. The priest warns
that Hail Marys won’t help and that Chase must take responsibility before getting absolution.
Chase insists there’s nothing just about going to jail for what he did.
House waits in his office and considers the case. Cuddy finally arrives and tells him that she’s
recertified him because it wouldn’t accomplish anything to make him do student rounds. She
asks if he’s okay and says they’re fine as it is, pressing each other’s buttons. House gets an idea
and goes to Donny’s room. He explains that Donny inherited an aneurysm that presses on nerves
that press on nerves controlling pains. As the patient gets older, the aneurysm grows and blocks
the nerves to the heart, shutting it off. House plans to cut into Donny’s brain, and Michael’s as
well once they confirm the aneurysm in Donny’s brain. As he goes, House asks if he plans to
call Michael and Donny admits he will later. House realizes that Donny is just using his family’s
medical history as an excuse to avoid commitment in his life and do whatever he wants.
Donny and Michael both undergo the brain surgery. Once they’ve recovered, Michael suggests
they go and see a movie together.
Chase comes home just as Cameron starts to call the police because he’s gone missing. She
realizes that he’s drunk and Chase admits he had to get wasted before he got better. He insists
he’s fine but she backs away from him.
House goes back to Wilson and Amber’s old room and puts in earplugs. He starts talking to
himself, and then yells to Wilson that it’s not working. Wilson tells Amber that House must be
getting better.
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Known Unknowns
Season 6
Episode Number: 116
Season Episode: 6
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Monday November 9, 2009
Doris Egan, Matthew V. Lewis
Greg Yaitanes
Robert Chase)
Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Anna Lucia Attanasio (Jordan), Marcus Giamatti (Keener), Bianca Collins (Phoebe), Eric Lutes (Derek Retzinger), Holly Gagnier (Michelle Berkley), Annie Young (II) (Madison),
Lindsay Johnston (Kaitlin), Ana Lucasey (Avery), Rachel Marie (Brianna), James R. Bowers (Drummer God), Andre Johnson (Bouncer),
Tom Astor (Pharma Guy), Michael Nye (Joseph Schultz), William
Christopher Stephens (Man), Sharon Swainson (Registration Woman),
Corey M. Curties (Security Guard)
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House, Cuddy, and Wilson go to a medical conference and meet an old
friend, while the team deal with a girl whose appendages have swollen
but she refuses to tell them the truth about the events leading up to
her illness.
A girl, Jordan, is going into a club with
her friends. She grabs a cup of coffee
and barges to the front of the line with
her friend Phoebe and claims they’re the
deejay’s assistants and have her coffee.
Jordan screws up by claiming the female
deejay is a he, but the band comes by and
invites Jordan and Phoebe to come with
him. The next morning, Jordan meets
with her friends at a diner and talks
about going up to the hotel room with the band members, playing Drummer God, climbing a
fence, and going skinny-dipping with the guitarist, Colt. They notice that Jordan’s hands and
feet have swollen, and then she collapses.
Wilson is packing for a pharmacology and public policy conference, and reminds him that
he told House to come with him. House isn’t interested, and says that Jordan’s case is more
important. He uses it as an excuse to get out of the conference and meets with the team, and
insists that it’s rhabdo. Cameron notes that Jordan’s parents are architects working on a project
in Shanghai. House notes that Chase and Cameron are sitting as far apart as possible, and
then stands by his diagnosis despite the fact that Cameron disagrees. Chase goes to test for
everything.
As Chase and Foreman run the tests on Jordan, Chase wonders if he should tell Cameron
about the fact he killed Dibala. He claims he doesn’t want to dump a burden on her. The tests
prove clean.
House goes to see Cuddy and compliment her breasts, and then asks her to sign a medical
discharge. He notices that Cuddy’s out-box is three times normal size and figures that she’s going
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to the medical conference with Wilson. House tells her that he’s going after all and notes that
she’s signing the discharge on his case. House then goes to see Wilson, who is with a patient,
and tells him that he’s going to the conference. Wilson realizes that House is only going because
Cuddy is going, tells him they’re leaving in two hours, and returns to his dying patient, Joseph.
Chase comes to see House as he packs and says he should say to see how the situation
between Chase and Cameron plays out, since House set it off. House refuses and Chase tells
him the tests for rhabdo are negative. House goes to see Jordan and has her use his cane and a
pen to play drumsticks along with music like she did the previous night on Drummer God. When
she does so, her arms go out due to temporary mental paralysis. House points out that Jordan
had low potassium levels that causes the paralysis, and she couldn’t have played Drummer God
the previous night or climbed the fence, so she was lying. He tells Chase to get an accurate
history and leaves.
Chase and Cameron demand the truth so they can determine the cause of her low potassium,
and Jordan and Phoebe finally explain that they are comic book fans and their friends don’t get
it. She learned at the party that the comic book’s creator, Jeffrey Keener, was at the band’s party.
They discretely followed him up to the party and then down to the restaurant. They never got
within 10’ of him, and followed him around, living his life and eating the same meal. Their story
checks out and Chase and Cameron get the same food. Foreman wonders if Jordan is bulimic
and eating all the food set off her condition.
As House prepares to leave with Wilson, House reads the program book and notices Wilson is
giving a paper. He observes that the last time Wilson gave a paper, he asked House for feedback.
House notes that there’s an 80s party and Wilson says that Cuddy is going. He suggests that
House ask her out. House insists he’s going to approach Cuddy slowly and carefully. Cuddy
arrives with her daughter Rachel and Wilson wonders what could possibly go wrong.
As Foreman and Cameron run tests, Cameron notes that Chase went to the gym five times
and she secretly followed him. Foreman tells her to talk to Chase, but she wants to know if
Chase is having an affair. When Foreman says he isn’t, she wonders why she should believe him.
Foreman says she shouldn’t, she should believe Chase. Jordan’s parents arrive and she flatline
as blood constructs her heart.
Once they revive her by draining off the blood, they call House at the conference. They rule
out chronic conditions and House tells them to track everything Jordan was doing for the last
24 hours. He hangs up and steals another doctor’s badge to get in. At the hospital, Phoebe says
they didn’t do anything unusual. However, Jordan says that she visited Bruce Springsteen and
wonders why Phoebe doesn’t believe her.
Cameron meets with the author, Keener, who remembers the two girls, knew they were following him, and then flirts with Cameron.
Foreman realizes that a bleed in Jordan’s brain is leaking into her thalamus, causing her to
lie. Phoebe only remembers that Jordan left the room briefly to get ice, but admits she isn’t sure.
House arrives at the party, dressed for the 1780s. When another doctor tries to flirt with
Cuddy, House cuts him out and invites Cuddy to dance. The music switches to a slow dance and
Cuddy talks about how they first met in a bookstore when he casually dismissed her. She admits
she tracked House down to a party later, and she notes that one thing didn’t lead to another.
House tells her that he was going to call her and figure out where things would go from there,
but he got expelled. Cuddy hastily backs off and leaves.
The next morning, Wilson gets a call that his patient died. He admits that he should have
been there and observes he didn’t hear House come in. House describes what happened and
Wilson suggests that Cuddy didn’t know how to react. House is more interested in the fact that
Wilson is preparing a paper in favor of euthanasia, and expected Joseph to die. Wilson says he
doesn’t want House’s advice and walks away.
Cameron, Foreman, and Chase review the security recordings at the hotel and realize that
Jordan found Keener’s journal and used it as an excuse to go back to talk to the author.
House goes to talk to Wilson on the pier and Wilson insists that he should say what all
doctors feel, and he should support euthanasia. House warns that he won’t be hirable if he does
but Wilson says that he learned to do what was right and ignore the consequences from House.
As he leaves, House notes that honesty hasn’t worked out well for him.
Cameron and Chase go to see Keener and confront him with the knowledge of what they know.
When he refuses to let them in to search the room, Cameron says that he’s risking a girl’s life.
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As they leave, Chase wonders if Cameron is suggesting Kenner is having an affair and takes it
personally. Cameron thinks Keener gave Jordan rufies, and an overdose would account for her
symptoms.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy, who is feeding Rachel and admits her babysitter had an emergency.
He asks how the dance went. Cuddy says that now that she’s a mother, she needs someone she
can count on in her life, and House has never been that.
Foreman discovers that Jordan is bleeding behind the kidneys, which means rufies aren’t
responsible. Cameron believes it’s a toxic reaction brought on by something Kenner did, and
suggests that they drug Jordan with amobarbital to stop the bleeding into the thalamus and
let her tell the truth. The process is risky. Chase points out that she thinks that Keener is
lying about his involvement with Jordan because she thinks Chase is lying about not having an
affair. He suggests they call House but Foreman figures that House will tell them to go with the
amobarbital.
Wilson goes to see House, who is drinking grape soda from the room bar. He suggests that
Cuddy wants someone responsible and House doesn’t believe he can convince her. Wilson suggests he babysit Cuddy’s daughter and notes that House has already started scheming. He tells
him not to. . . and then passes out as he realizes that House drugged him.
They give Jordan the amobarbital and monitor her condition. Jordan says that Keener invited
her in and gave her something he claimed was ecstasy. She then says that he raped her when
she started to pass out. Jordan apologizes to her parents for letting them down, but Foreman
notes that according to the monitors, everything she’s been saying is a lie.
House goes to see Cuddy and offers his services as a babysitter, but she claims Rachel is in
daycare. However, as House leaves, he hears Rachel giggling and comes back in to discover that
private investigator Lucas Douglas is playing with Rachel. House notes that it’s awkward and
leaves.
The next morning, Wilson finally wakes up when Foreman calls to update House on Jordan’s
case. House isn’t there and Foreman warns that Jordan is bleeding out faster than they can
transfuse. They’re treating her for rickettsia because Keener travels with a dog. Wilson realizes
he was supposed to give his paper five minutes ago.
At the conference, House gives Wilson’s speech as everyone stares in surprise. He describes
what Wilson wrote about telling the truth concerning euthanasia, and how he covertly instructed
his patient to use the morphine pump. Wilson comes running in as House reads of how Wilson
promised he’d be there with the man, but left the patient alone to go to the conference so he
could cover his ass. House then speaks of how he doesn’t turn away from his responsibility and
that his friends take advantage of it. Speaking for Wilson, House insists that he’s never turned
away from a patient, and the dying patient knew it. As House goes, many of the attendees object
but one doctor thanks him. . . under House’s assumed name.
Outside, Wilson gives House Foreman’s message and then wants to know what he’s up to.
House insists that the paper is out there like Wilson wanted and Wilson is safe, and notes that
Wilson should be thanking him if he wanted to get his story out there. He admits that if Wilson
was trying to get fired out of guilt, then he screwed up. Wilson insists it wasn’t House’s decision
but House figures he’s feeling guilty. . . and gets an idea.
House calls and tells the team it’s the blood that’s killing her. She has vibrio vulnificus from
eating oysters and Chase notes he had the same oysters. Jordan has hemochromatosis, which
reacted with the vibrio from the oysters. The vibrio caused the joints to swell, they thought she
had bulimia as a result, gave her iron supplements, and iron caused bleeding of the liver. They
gave her more blood which aggravated the iron levels, causing more bleeding. They stop the blood
transfusions and give her the proper drug and she recovers.
House, Wilson, Lucas, and Cuddy meet for lunch and Cuddy explains she hired Lucas to investigate embezzlement in the accounting department. House asks why she kept the relationship
secret and Lucas admits that Cuddy was worried about House. He starts talking about everything
Cuddy has told him about House, and then realizes he needs to shut up.
Jordan’s infection clears up and her parents plan to stay with her and take a few weeks off.
However, they’re called away to the phone almost immediately to deal with business. Jordan
admits to Cameron that she’s used to it, and finally tells Cameron she never got the courage to
knock on Keener’s door. She just left the journal there and walked away, and Cameron sighs in
relief.
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House watches as Cuddy and Lucas play with Rachel. He admits to Wilson that Lucas looks
like a responsible guy. Wilson admits he needed to hear from someone else that what he did was
okay: he needed to hear it from a friend. He tells House that he’s a good friend and that Cuddy
should know it too. As they go, House notes that he hasn’t been to a conference in 15 years
and the doctor whose name badge he took, and everyone thinks House is, is in Toronto with an
airtight alibi.
That night, Cameron apologizes to Chase and says that she believes he’s not having an affair.
When he hesitates to respond, she briefly thinks he is, and then says she’ll love him no matter
what and wants to help him get past whatever is bothering him. Chase finally tells her that he
killed Dibala.
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Teamwork
Season 6
Episode Number: 117
Season Episode: 7
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Eli Attie
David Straiton
Robert Chase)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub)
Jolene Blalock (Lexa), Ben Giroux (Rick/Director), Troy Garity (Hank
Hardwick), Deborah Quayle (Phyllis), Paul Hayes (Mr. Klingman)
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House is finally reinstated and takes on the case of a porn star with eye
pain. Meanwhile, Chase and Cameron try to resolve their relationship
issues after Chase’s admission, and House tries to bring back Taub
and Thirteen.
Porn star Hank Hardwick is rubbing
his eye as the director comes in and complains about how porn movies are losing
money thanks to the Internet. Hank complains about a mild headache but insists
that they need to go to work and touch
people’s lives. They beginning filming but
Hank clutches at his eyes in sudden pain
and says they feel like they’re exploding.
Cameron and Chase are preparing to
go to work and Cameron insists they can get over what he did, but says that they need to get
away from Princeton so he isn’t constantly reminded of what he did.
House and Foreman are considering what cases to take, and House would rather take Hank’s
case. Foreman reminds him that he’s in charge just as Cuddy comes in and gives House his
recertification. Cameron and Chase arrive and Foreman tells them they’re treating a porn star.
The couple tells them that they’re leaving the team and moving away. They insists that they’re
doing the right thing. House orders his team to start running tests, and then makes sure to
remind Foreman that he’ll be doing it all.
Hank insists that he’s checked clean for STDs. His wife Lexa works in the industry as well but
he insists that neither one of them has problems with the other being porn stars. Hank assures
Foreman that his medical record is clear and he’s simply a nice Jewish boy who choose porn
because he believes in it. He also insists that they have a happy marriage, and refuses to let
their work life rule their home life He suddenly complains about pain in his arms as the muscles
contract from tetany
House goes to see Taub and asks if he wants to sign back up: he has three slots and four
candidates. Taub prefers the life that he has but House continues to present Hank’s symptoms
and notes they’ve ruled out viral encephalitis. He then notes that Taub’s wife is the only obstacle
to him coming back, and points out that she’s never been much of an obstacle to Taub. Taub
and suggests it might be a tumor in the brain linked to Hank’s sensitivity . . . and gets House out.
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House goes to see Thirteen, who notes she has an interview with a community health center
and insists she’s not going to divide her attention by helping House.
House checks back with Foreman, and notes that no one has a problem with the work. All of
their problems are personal. Foreman suggests cerebral vasculitis and House agrees and orders
steroids to treat and biopsies to confirm. He talks to Wilson in the cafeteria and Wilson wonders
why he’s going after the four people who don’t want to work with him when there are so many
others who do. When House notes they don’t have normal lives, Wilson points out that House is
hardly normal and is dooming himself by pursuing Cuddy, despite the fact she’s dating Lucas,
House insists he’s fine.
Foreman approaches Chase and asks him to help do the brain angio. They suggest that
Foreman should leave as well since House is treating him so unreasonably. Foreman reminds
Chase that he owes him and he reluctantly gives in. They go to see Hank and Cameron agrees
they should run the tests, but suggests Hank might have a severe Vitamin D deficiency. Chase
agrees to take Hank to the phototherapy suite and give him Vitamin D treatments. As they do the
tests, Cameron and Chase ask how Hank and his wife Lexa manage to handle their relationship
given they’re porn stars. They insist that they have taken sex out of the relationship as long as
they have emotional closeness. Chase isn’t convinced. Hank starts bleeding from his nose and
inside his leg as he suffers petechial hemorrhages.
Chase and Cameron come to see House, who is watching Hank on the Internet. They conclude
the UV treatment caused Hank’s capillaries to become more fragile, causing them to crack.
Cameron believes it’s a blood infection, meningococcemia, and House agrees, ordering treatment.
As they go, House deduces that Chase told Cameron what happened. She insists that she’s
forgiven her husband but House doesn’t believe her and wonders why she’s staying with him.
Cameron figures that House is keeping them on because he figured Foreman would ask them
to stay on, and he plans to ruin their marriage. He admits that eventually her relationship with
Chase will blow up and then the only obstacle to her leaving will be gone.
As Chase treats Hank, he explains that meningococcemia is spread person-to-person. Hank
figures that Chase is having issues and is more like him than he’ll admit. Chase insists that
he’s happy but Hank wonders if he wants to toss out the rulebook and do what he wants. They
discuss conscience and Hank says he’s committed, and conscience only kicks in when you don’t
act the way people believe you should. Hank gets a fever and Chase realizes the antibiotics aren’t
working.
House goes to see Taub again and tries to get his opinion on the case. Taub insists that he’s
content but House points out that he cheated on his wife and got involved in stock scams. Taub
figures House is addicted to his team and is using it to avoid other problems. Taub defends
the work he does as saving lives, and realizes that Hank’s sinus are infected. If they drain the
sinuses, the antibiotics will work. House figures it felt good to Taub and leaves, promising he’ll
back tomorrow.
Foreman goes to see Thirteen, who insists she doesn’t want to work for House. He argues that
she’s a great doctor and Thirteen wonders if he still has feelings for her. When Foreman insists
it isn’t an issue, Thirteen wants to know if he does have feelings, and complains that he couldn’t
keep his personal and professional life separate. Foreman admits that he was the one with the
problem, but he doesn’t have it any more. He gets up and walks away.
Chase drains Hank’s sinuses while House watches and then tries to apologize. He admits that
he thought Chase was an idiot for confessing, but it seems to be working out. House understandably has doubts and promises that since Chase can’t explain it, House is going to continue
looking.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy and warns her that House is stalking his fellows. He asks what
she sees in Lucas and then blames her for not telling him so he could avoid coaching House on
how to get her back. Cuddy insists that it’s her life and she isn’t going to change it for House
or anyone else. At home, Cuddy talks to Lucas and admits that she feels like crap. She figures
that House is going to make it about him no matter what, but Lucas points out that she must
have figured they weren’t going to date that long. Cuddy admits that he’s right and apologizes,
but he figures she is comfortable enough with him that she can freak out while playing it cool for
Wilson.
As Chase and Cameron prepare to readminister the antibiotics, Chase asks Cameron why she
chose to forgive him. Cameron notes that Chase feels shame and guilt, and that’s how she’s sure
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they’ll get through it. Hank complains of stomach pains and they determine his liver is failing.
Back in differential, the team tries to figure out what they’ve overlooked. Foreman notes that
as a child, Hank’s parents sent him to doctors every time he had the least injury. House finally
agrees to authorize an ERCP for blocked bile channels and find a liver donor. As they go, House
asks Chase what Cameron said, and then wonders if Chase had doubts. As Chase goes, House
figures that Cameron is actually blaming House because he created the climate that allowed it
to happen. Chase wonders why House is trying to screw things up, and House suggests that
Cameron figures that Chase is his sock puppet, and the only way he can prove otherwise is to
stay on the team.
House goes to a fitness center to see Thirteen and try to get her involved in the diagnosis.
He notes that she’s doing a workout to cope with the symptoms of Huntington’s and figures
she wants to do something more with her life. Thirteen insists the community health center is
what she plans to do, but House figures she wants more, and if she comes back then she’ll have
the chance to screw with Foreman. She figures House won’t ask because he can’t handle the
rejection, and tells him he shouldn’t ask for his sake as well as hers.
Cameron briefs Hank and Lexa on his liver damage and warns that the transplant committee
won’t approve him for the transplant if he works in the porn industries. Hank takes offense and
refuses to let someone else dictate how he lives his life, but Lexa warns that the way he’s living
now will kill him.
As they run a camera through Hank’s liver, Foreman warns Chase not to listen to House.
Chase insists that House doesn’t make his decisions. They discover that Hank’s liver is filled
with worms. They tell Hank that he has threadworms, which caused all of his symptoms. They
give him mebendazole pills for treatment while warning that he may have caught them through
sexual intercourse.
Chase goes to the doctor’s lounge and finds Lucas there reading his charts. Lucas admits
he’s worried about Cuddy and explains that if House doesn’t have his team, it’ll make Cuddy
miserable. Lucas points out that Chase kept very precise notes until four week ago. Chase claims
he got backlogged but Lucas wonders what happened and why he’s leaving. Lucas suggests that
he stay and face the problem so it can’t bite him in the ass. As Chase goes, Lucas asks if he has
any dirt on the rest of the team.
Hank starts vomiting as his lungs are compromised and the liver continues to fail. Back in
differential, Foreman suggests lymphoma and House orders chemo. He tells them to fax Taub
and Thirteen with an update on the case. Cameron takes offense and tells him to stop playing
games. As they go out, Chase asks her why he’s mad at House and wonders why she blames him.
Chase insists that he’s the one who killed Dibala, not House, and that he’d do it again. Cameron
doesn’t believe it, but Chase insists he’s not running away from what he did so she can pretend
it didn’t happen. Cameron considers and then says she’s fine with how he’s feeling.
House tells Wilson that his strategy to get his team back isn’t working. Wilson ignores him at
first and then finally asks why he needs three of those doctors. He figures that since House feels
abandoned by Cuddy, he’s reaching out to his team for comfort. Wilson figures that he’s better
off not playing along so House can find something beyond a surface solution.
Foreman talks to Chase and tells him that things will be better once they get away. Hank
starts urinating blood and then arrests, and they try to revive him as his body gives out. Back in
differential, they note that his blood is completely lacking in blood cells. They try to find anything
that might account for the symptoms and Foreman suggests aleukemic leukemia. House has
them ablate the bone marrow. Chase and Cameron warn against it but House notes they don’t
have anything better and then faxes his diagnosis to Taub and Thirteen.
Taub throws away the fax immediately.
Thirteen gets the fax and ignores it.
As House leaves at 11 a.m., Cuddy wonders why he’s going. She agrees with the others that
he’s going to kill the patient and wonders if it’s about her and Lucas. She demands alternatives,
but House has nothing. He goes home and finds Chase waiting for him outside. Chase tells him
he wants to be on the team, and House wonders if it will save his marriage. Chase admits he
doesn’t know, and House warns that it’s going to be a tough choice since there’s only three
openings and four candidates.
Thirteen gets a call from the health clinic telling her she got the job. She sees the diagnostic
report from House.
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Taub is discussing a woman’s plastic surgery and is clearly distracted. He grabs the fax and
starts reading it.
House watches as they begin the ablation, figuring something will go wrong. Thirteen and
Taub both call and inform him that Hank has extraintestinal Crohn’s that he got from growing
up in such a healthy environment. The worms were keeping the Crohn’s in check. Once they
killed the worms, the Crohn’s started killing him.
Later, Taub comes to see House in his office and says he wants to be on the team. He explains
he reorganized his life to be with her more, but not enough. House figures the job gave Taub the
thrill that he used to get from philandering. He tells Taub he’ll let him know. As Taub turns to
go, Thirteen comes in.
Chase tells Cameron about his decision to stay on the team. He says she should stay on the
team and wonders if House was right about why she wanted out.
Cameron goes to see House, who figures she’s there to ask him to keep her on. She admits
she was in love with him, and that she was an idiot for trying to understand him so she could
heal him. She figures he knew the correct diagnosis all along and held out so he could bring his
team back together. Cameron figures he is the one who killed Dibala, by passing on his lack of
morals to the rest of his team. House insists that all that matters is that the patient was cured.
She says that he doesn’t care and there’s no way back for him or Chase. Cameron says she loved
them both and is sorry for both of them for what they’ve become. She offers her hand and House
refuses to shake it, so she steps forward and kisses him on the cheek and then leaves. As she
walks away, House starts to go after her but then stops and watches her go.
House goes to see Wilson and tells him that he succeeded. He’s happy that he’s got his sanity
and his license back, and now he has his team as well. Wilson is surprised and admits that
House was right. However, House tells him that Cameron is breaking up with Chase and leaving
the hospital.
Thirteen reinfects Hank with the worms to bolster his autoimmune system. Foreman watches
and then walks away.
Taub tells his wife Rachel the news. She doesn’t take it well.
Cameron embraces Chase and then leaves him.
Lucas and Cuddy leave the hospital together as House watches from above.
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Ignorance is Bliss
Season 6
Episode Number: 118
Season Episode: 8
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David Hoselton
Greg Yaitanes
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase)
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), Bobbin
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Esteban Powell (Dr. James Sidas), Vicki Davis (Dara Sidas), Larry
Cedar (Bob Beringer), Andrea Gabriel (Ronnie), Patrick Price (Nurse
Jeffrey), Dava Krause (Cashier), Cheryl Carter (Dianna), Gabrielle
Thomas (Woman)
HOU-609
It’s Thanksgiving, and the team discover they have little to be thankful
for in their personal lives. Meanwhile, House takes on the illness of a
brilliant physicist who has rejected his intellect to work as a courier.
At a bookstore, a courier stops in with
a delivery and gets a drink of water. He
notices a book of science books written by
James Sidas. The owner comes over and
notes that the customer’s company has
been laid off. He then notes that the customer looks like James Sidas and realizes
he actually is James Sidas. He wonders
what James has been doing but James
insists that he’s not that guy any more
and wants to just get going. He reluctantly agrees to sign the man’s book but then realizes that
his hand isn’t working. James realizes that he’s ill and looks around wildly.
House is busy trying to charge food at the cafeteria to Wilson’s account when Cuddy brings
him a case about a 15-year-old with migraines and blurred vision. He asks what she’s doing for
Thanksgiving and she says that she’s going to her sister. House dismisses it as a casual question
and takes the case to the newly reassembled team and wonders where Wilson is. They go over
his symptoms of ataxia, atemia, and a mild cough. When Thirteen agrees with Foreman that it’s
TTP, everyone wonders and House insists they’re one big happy family and goes with TTP. He
tells them to test and confirm.
Thirteen and Taub administer treatment and James’ wife Dara worries about him. Taub wonders why he essentially dropped out and insists they need all the information possible to diagnose him, including any possibility of mental illness. James insists he works as a courier because
whatever he did before wasn’t good enough, and his wife didn’t care how smart he was or what
it meant. He insists he’d rather be happy than smart.
Foreman finds Chase sleeping on the couch in the doctor’s lounge and wonders if he’s doing
okay. Chase tells him that Cameron has left and he doesn’t want to talk about it, and rebuffs
Foreman’s attempts to help.
Taub talks to Thirteen as they run the tests and he notes that James wasn’t acting like a
genius. Thirteen brings up why Taub came back and he admits his wife wasn’t happy. He asks
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her, and she insists that she came back between things are fine between her and Foreman. They
confirm it’s TTP but Taub figures that the case isn’t easy and House knows it, and he wants to
see how long it takes them to catch up. They recommend a splenectomy and House agrees, and
they figure he’s still testing them. House insists that he doesn’t while going into the bathroom to
search for the still-missing Wilson. He finally tells them that he’s fishing for a dinner invite.
When Wilson comes in, House is waiting for him in the lobby. Wilson says he has a dental
appointment and House tells him he’s going to break up Cuddy and Lucas. He figures either it
will break them up, or make their bond stronger. Wilson isn’t impressed and tells him he has no
idea where Cuddy’s sister lives. House warns that if he doesn’t help, he’ll have to resort to more
nefarious means, but Wilson passes.
Chase checks James after the surgery and confirms he’s responding to the treatment and can
be released in a week. However, James starts slurring his words and Chase realizes he’s having
a stroke.
The team goes back into differential while House starts calling to try to locate Cuddy’s sister.
Foreman suggests the possibility of more subtle toxins and House orders Thirteen and Foreman
do a more detailed tox screen, while Chase and Taub check out the Sidas’ home. As they search,
Taub invites Chase to come over for Thanksgiving dinner, and Chase figures he’s asking because
he broke up with Cameron. He turns down Taub’s invitation and Taub asks if he has someone
to talk to. Chase wonders if he’s overcompensating for the fact that Kutner died. He then finds
sketches of atomic structure saved away since 1986. As they go over the books, Chase notices a
loose ventilator grille with a bottle of vodka inside.
House cheerfully finishes with the sixth patient in the clinic, much to Cuddy’s surprise. She
wonders what his agenda is, and if it’s good or bad. House refuses to say, and she finally breaks
down and invites him. He goes to Wilson to boast of his victory, and Wilson notes it’s a three-hour
drive away. House tells him that he’s confirmed the address and he’s going.
Back in differential, House is trying on ties while Taub and Chase announce what they’ve
found. They figure that the issue is liver failure brought on by alcoholism but House isn’t convinced and tells Taub and Thirteen to do a liver biopsy as the junior team members. He lets
Chase and Foreman go to celebrate Thanksgiving.
James admits that he drinks occasionally, much to his wife’s surprise. She wonders why he’s
been keeping it from him and James insists it’s not important and a waste of time to test for it.
House arrives at the address for Cuddy’s sister. . . and meets the house sitter. The sister is in
Hawaii and Cuddy is far away, celebrating Thanksgiving with Lucas, family, and friends.
Thirteen brings in tuna salad sandwiches, the only thing she could find, and goes over the
liver biopsy with Taub. They don’t discover anything. Taub figures that it’s renal failure, but
Thirteen points out that now they have to stay longer to test James’ kidneys.
Lucas returns home and finds a drunken House waiting for him. House insists that Lucas
isn’t right for Cuddy and points out that she invited him because she isn’t sure about him. He
admits he’s blown all of her chances with Cuddy, and then collapses. As Lucas tries to get him
to the sofa bed, House admits he loves Cuddy.
The next day, House is gone and the team meets in the cafeteria. Foreman tells them that
House called and said he isn’t coming in. Taub wonders what Chase did, and Chase claims he
can’t remember because he may or may not have been drinking. He remembers finding cough
syrup in James’ medicine cabinet and suggests that may indicate a symptom. The kidneys tested
fine but Foreman suggests that they should go with dialysis. The others agree but Thirteen
objects to Foreman taking charge. Taub breaks up the fight and they begin dialysis. Afterward,
Thirteen offers to set Chase up with a counselor but he insists he just wants everyone to leave
him alone.
House wakes up at home and finds Cuddy on his doorstep. She wants to know what he said
to Lucas, who has told her that they should stop seeing each other because he doesn’t want to
get caught between Cuddy and House. She tells House that there is no ”us” and never will be.
Once she’s gone, House tells Wilson that his plan succeeded and Cuddy and Lucas are broken
up. When Wilson says that Lucas must be stupid, House gets an epiphany.
House goes to James and tells him he’s stupid because he’s a DXM addict. Robotripping by
drinking cough syrup lowers the IQ and causes brain damage, unless taken with ethanol. James
was using the alcohol medicinally to counter the brain damage caused by the DXM. He explains
to his wife that he wanted his brain on low so he could bear the misery in his life, and that she
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wasn’t alone. The long-term abuse accounts for all of his symptoms. As House leaves, James
says he can’t live without the DXM’s effects, and House tells him he’d be surprised what he can
learn to live without.
Lavage treatment removes all traces of DXM from Sidas’ body and he starts doodling schematics for a device again. He asks Dara to get him a juice, and when she’s gone explains to Foreman
that the difference between his IQ and hers is so great, he can’t stand to be with her. James
admits that he’s a jerk, and when he’s clear, he can’t be.
House is checking another patient and starts insulting her, and then points out that he’s
realized she’s a spy for the insurance companies to determine the quality of medical care. He
agrees to give her $20 dollars if she pretends he’s nice when she leaves. She agrees but House
realizes that Cuddy has left already so it was for nothing, and the spy runs away before she has
to give the money back.
Outside, Dara figures that James hates her and Foreman tries to reassure her. James yells
that he can’t feel his legs.
At home, Taub wants to talk to Rachel about their situation. He wonders if she is worried
about the money, and she finally tells him that he should be beyond doing grunt work. When
Taub wonders if she thinks he’s a wuss, Rachel points out that House made him miss Thanksgiving. They’re interrupted when House pages him.
Taub finally arrives as the team tries to determine what’s going on. Chase has nothing to add
and House threatens to call Cameron if Chase can’t come up with anything. Chase gets up and
slugs him, and then walks out.
Later, Cuddy comes in to see if House is going to press charges. He denies the entire thing
happened and asks her if she wants to go for dinner. Cuddy refuses to play along and tells him
to do his job. House goes to see James and ask him for ideas, and he figures that House is just
as lonely. James explains that he tried to kill himself once by jumping off a building, broke his
ribs, and was put on narcotics. That’s when he met Dara, buzzed out of his head, and fell in love
with her. House hands him cough medicine and turns to leave, but then has an epiphany. He
calls in the team and gets James to the MRI. They confirm that he has accessory spleens. When
the ribs broke, they damaged his spleen and 16 different pieces broke up and migrated through
his body. It’s TTP of the spleen, and if they remove all of the spleen, he’ll be fine.
Chase goes after House and apologizes, and says that everyone else kept asking him if he was
okay. He punched House so they’d stay away from him. House is okay with that.
After the operation, James thanks House for a stimulating conversation and says he’s going
back to his life as a deliveryman. Taub asks what Dara thinks about robotripping, and James
admits he doesn’t plan to tell her. House walks away and Taub follows him, and wonders if House
is okay with James essentially giving himself a lobotomy. When House notes that ignorance is
bliss, Taub takes a digital photo of him and leaves.
At home, Taub shows Rachel the photo of House’s battered and claims he punched him. She’s
impressed and starts passionately kissing him.
As Cuddy leaves, House intercepts her and asks if they can at least be civil. He then gives her
the tickets for a holiday carnival, and says he’s just doing it to be nice. Cuddy refuses to take
them and says she’ll see him tomorrow. At home, House tells Wilson that Cuddy and Lucas that
they never split up, because she didn’t take the tickets. He figures that she just told House they
were breaking up to get him to back off. When Wilson wonders what he’s going to do now, House
admits that he failed to break them up.
Cuddy goes home and tells Lucas that she knows House knows they didn’t break up. Lucas
figures that means they have House’s blessing and goes to make dinner, suggesting that House
might not be so bad after all. Cuddy admits that it would be nice.
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Wilson
Season 6
Episode Number: 119
Season Episode: 9
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David Foster
Lesli Linka Glatter
Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Bobbin
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Joshua Molina (Tucker), Katherine La Nasa (Melissa), Marnette Patterson (Ashley), Christina Vidal (Sandy), Willie C. Carpenter (Del), Jessica
Whitaker (Emily), Marisa Tayui (Aikoa Tanaka), Robert Katims (Saul),
Anna Khaja (Dr. D’Razio), Gil Espinoza (Juan)
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Wilson insists on treating the case of a friend and former patient,
Tucker, who is suffering from paralysis of his right arm. However, he
soon discovers that he can’t separate his feelings from his professional
attitude. Meanwhile, Cuddy tries to buy a new house.
Wilson is trying to sleep when House
starts playing the guitar in the next room.
He staggers out and suggests he’s going to toss the guitar in the garbage, but
House explains that he had the urge to
play. When House wonders why Wilson
isn’t getting ready for work, Wilson explains he’s going hunting, after he sleeps
in. House goes in after him and warns
that Wilson’s friend Tucker is a selfimportant jerk who calls him Jim instead of James.
Later, Wilson and Tucker are hunting turkey in the woods without much success. They then
pin a chemo bag to a tree in celebration of the fact that Tucker didn’t die in six months from
leukemia as Wilson predicted. Each year he’s dedicated himself to finding a new way to celebrate. Tucker shoots the bag and thanks Wilson, but then drops his rifle because his left arm is
suddenly paralyzed. He wonders if he’s had a stroke.
Wilson gets Tucker to Princeton and tries to assure him that he didn’t have a stroke, and
the test prove negative for leukemia. Tucker’s young girlfriend Ashley is also there, and Wilson
notices she has a cold sore, and suspects that the virus from it has infected Tucker’s spine,
causing his paralysis. He orders treatment and goes to see House to inform him that he had an
epiphany moment. House and his team are working on a patient who is complaining of stomach
pains. As Wilson leaves, House warns that Tucker doesn’t have transverse myelitis and admits
he’s been spying on Wilson’s cases. House insists that it’s cancer and warns that Wilson is
biased. He wagers $100 and Wilson accepts the bet.
Wilson checks with his next patient, Del Clinton, but is called away. As he starts to go, he
realizes that Del didn’t brag about his grandchildren and asks if the man is depressed. Del admits
he’s a little more down than usual and Wilson orders a couple of extra tests to be on the safe
side. He then gets a page that Tucker’s foot is tingling and goes to check it out. Once Tucker
gets Ashley out of the room, he wonders if he’s having a relapse. Wilson assures him that he’s
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not having a relapse of cancer. Tucker asks Wilson to call his daughter Emily to come down, and
admits she hasn’t been talking to him since he got tighter with the younger Ashley.
As Wilson talks to Emily, Cuddy comes in to check on him and suggests that he listen to
House’s suggestion. She then asks Wilson to put her in touch with Bonnie so she can buy
a house: she’s moving in with Lucas. Wilson suspects she wants his blessing. . . and House’s.
Cuddy insists that isn’t the case.
That night, Emily and her mother, Melissa, arrive to see Tucker. Tucker is now coughing
regularly and his body starts to shut down. Once they stabilize Tucker, he goes to see the team.
They’ve dealt with their patient and warn Wilson that House is hiding so that he can’t get a new
case from Cuddy. Wilson asks them to review Tucker’s case and they suggest fungal infection,
and Wilson believe that the fungal infection could have caused the symptoms. He tells Tucker
they can treat for it but warns that it is surgery and there are risks. Tucker asks Ashley, who is
hesitant. Melissa asks about the risks and Wilson assures him that it’s necessary. He promises
Melissa that he’ll be there.
As Wilson checks back on his patients, he’s told that one of them, Saul, is having trouble
sleeping. As Wilson visits him, he hears a toilet flush in the next room and finds House there,
hiding. House wants $100 and points out that Tucker doesn’t have fungal infection. Cuddy
arrives and Wilson gets her outside where she talks about the house she wants to buy.
Wilson talks to Tucker before the surgery, and they discuss the fact that Ashley isn’t ready
to handle things at such a young age. Tucker admits he broke up with Melissa because they
married young, but otherwise isn’t sure. Wilson then goes to the observation gallery where House
is watching, and waiting for Wilson. House wants to discuss Cuddy and Lucas, and figures Cuddy
is having commitment issues. Wilson tells him that it has no deeper meaning and to let it go.
Chase, performing the surgery on Tucker, reports that his immune system is failing. House
insists it demonstrates that cancer is the cause of Tucker’s symptoms.
Later, Wilson meets with his staff in the conference room and discusses Del’s case, including
the fact they found a new lesion. House comes in to tell Wilson that Tucker has cancer and shows
him the test results. Wilson breaks the news to Tucker and his family and explains it’s a new
case of ALL leukemia and is lodged in his brain. They can go for a cure with a 90% chance of
success. If it fails, Tucker will live for six months. They need to surgically place a shunt to get
the chemicals into his brain. They need someone to act as medical proxy and Tucker suggests
that he have Melissa do it. As they take Tucker to surgery, House brings his new patient in for
immediate treatment and bumps Tucker. As they wait, Ashley accuses Tucker not loving her, but
he insists that Melissa is the one that knows him best.
After the surgery, Wilson checks on Tucker, who informs him that Ashley is staying away
because she’s pissed off. Wilson realizes that the new chemo isn’t working because the original
chemo made his leukemia resistant. Wilson has an idea and goes to House, who disagrees with
his idea of doubling the chemo dosage. When Wilson points out that it’s something House would
do, House says he can handle it when things go wrong, but Wilson can’t. Wilson insists he can
and brings the idea to Tucker. Melissa says he should talk to Ashley but Emily says that he
should go with whatever keeps him around longer. The treatment initially works, but Wilson
notices that his eyes are yellow and takes samples. House comes in to the lab and Wilson admits
that that Tucker’s liver is breaking down due to the chemo.
Wilson explains what happened to Tucker and his family. If they don’t find him a new liver,
he only has 24 hours left. Wilson has moved Tucker to the top of the transplant list but there’s
nothing else they can do. None of them match Tucker’s blood type. House comes in, soaked from
having to treat his patient in a shower, and informs them that there was an accident and a man
who matches Tucker’s blood type died. However, the man didn’t have an organ donor card and
the sister is refusing to sign off on the donation.
House and Wilson go to see the sister, Aikoa, who isn’t home. As they wait, Wilson wants to
know what House plans to do to break Cuddy and Lucas up, and House insists that while he
isn’t fine, he’s accepted it. The sister arrives home and they go to talk to her. She explains that
she has been separated from her brother until recently, and if they defile his body then his spirit
will be harmed per her beliefs in Shinto. House suggests that they donate only one small part of
his liver and Aikoa agrees, but Wilson gets the news that the liver has degraded and it’s too late.
Wilson goes to see Tucker, who accuses him of taking away six months of his life on the
treatment. He insists he can’t lose his family, then notes that Wilson gave him a blood donation
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five years ago and can also donate part of his liver. When Wilson balks because he’s Tucker’s
doctor, Tucker fires him and begs him to donate, but Wilson refuses.
Wilson goes home and House wonders why he’s late. He explains that he was out drinking
and House realizes that he’s actually considering donating. He tries to get through to Wilson and
explain that he’s not responsible, and tells him not to be a doormat. Wilson snaps and tells him
to get out, insisting he’s wrong.
The next day, Tucker isn’t getting any worse, and Wilson’s nurse Sandy gives him the scans
on Del. Wilson takes them to Del and shows him that he’s getting better because they caught a
bit of it early. Wilson goes to see Cuddy, who tells him she put a fair offer down on the house
but it was turned down. He tells her that he wants to donate part of his liver to Tucker, and
she points out that he’s a doctor, not a donor. Wilson asks her why she made him the Head of
Oncology, and she admits it’s because he cares. Cuddy warns him he’s doing it out of guilt but
Wilson insists on doing it.
Wilson goes to see House and tell him he’s doing it. House notes that all of Wilson’s patients
are dying and wonders why he’s donating for Tucker. Wilson asks House to be there for the
operation but House refuses: he doesn’t want to see Wilson die and admits that if Wilson does
die, he’s alone.
Wilson goes into surgery to have his liver removed. Just before he passes out from the anesthetic, he sees House watching from the observation gallery. Afterward, House sits with Wilson.
Once he’s recovered, Wilson goes to see Tucker, who explains that he’s staying with Ashley because she’s who he wants when he’s living. Angry, Wilson leaves.
Later, Wilson tells House about Tucker’s decision and admits he’s a little disappointed. House
tells him that it’s okay to get angry once in a while, and then leaves. Wilson makes a decision
and calls Bonnie. Once he’s out of the hospital, Wilson takes House to see the house and tells
him what Cuddy’s bid was. House realizes that Wilson got mad about Cuddy hurting House, and
outbid Cuddy to get the house for himself and for House. House is proud of him but wonders
what he’s going to tell Cuddy. Wilson figures he can’t hide it forever, but he can delay it as long
as possible. House tells him to express his anger in baby steps, and Wilson just smiles as he
calls Bonnie to confirm he’s taking it.
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The Down Low
Season 6
Episode Number: 120
Season Episode: 10
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Nick Gomez
Chase), Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory
House), Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy)
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Ethan Embry (Mickey), Sherry Weston (Diner), Sean Carrigan (Guy),
Sasha Alexander (Nora), Nick Chinlund (Eddie), Sammy Busby
(Gorski), Paul Zies (Marco), Preston James Hillier (Tommy), Rosalie
Vega (Nurse Yvette), Bonnie Kathleen Ryan (Mickey’s Wife)
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A drug dealer collapses during a sale, but refuses to reveal personal
information to the team because it might incriminate him. Meanwhile,
Foreman’s teammates conspire to play a practical joke on him, while
House and Wilson both aim their sights on an attractive new neighbor,
Nora.
Eddie is trying to make a drug deal
with Gorski, a criminal, who is offended
by Eddie’s lack of respect. His partner
Mickey tries to intervene and a shot goes
off. He collapses, but they discover that
Mickey wasn’t shot, although he scrapes
his head on the concrete. Gorski and his
man leave, and Eddie calls for help.
At the clinic, House checks Mickey’s
head injury and soon realizes that they
are avoiding the ER because they were dealing drugs. They start to leave but House slams his
cane on the examination table, causing a loud noise that causes Mickey to feel vertigo and
collapse.
In differential, House describes the symptoms and notes that Chase has got a haircut. Mickey’s
medical history is blank and House explains it’s because Mickey is a drug dealer. As they talk,
Foreman notices a pay stub laying on the ground. He figures it’s ears or brain, and suggests
acoustic neuroma. House figures Mickey is taking cocaine, that caused the problem.
Wilson is chatting with one of his new neighbors, Nora, who seems to like him. He finally asks
her out for dinner. . . and Nora admits that she thinks that Wilson and House are gay.
Taub and Foreman checks Mickey’s ears, and Foreman has Taub take a look at the piece of
paper he picked up. It’s Thirteen’s pay stub, and Foreman doesn’t think she’s getting paid that
much. Taub points out that he’s getting the same, and realizes Foreman isn’t.
House talks to Eddie and demands the drugs. When Eddie refuses, House tries to get him
to admit what they’re dealing without incriminating himself. Eddie explains that nobody cuts or
touches the drugs, including Mickey. Wilson arrives and tells House that everyone thinks they’re
gay. House isn’t concerned, despite the fact Wilson wants to date Nora and he can’t convince her
that he’s a heterosexual. Eddie interrupts and explains that Mickey hates drugs, and he’s the
only one that Eddie trusts. House assures him that Mickey will be fine.
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In the lab, Mickey goes into convulsions. They get his hyperdilation under control and go
back into differential. The team figures that Mickey’s conditions weren’t brought on by exposure
to drugs once he was brought to the hospital. Foreman notices that Thirteen is wearing a new,
expensive watch, but she says she treated herself. She suggests they check for clogging of the
arteries and House agrees.
Foreman goes to see Cuddy and demand more money, but she refuses to discuss his teammates’ wages and points out that he has nothing to negotiate with since no one else is competing
for his services.
Taub and Thirteen report to House that Mickey’s arteries are fine, and discover that he’s
bugged Mickey’s room to listen in while the patient and his partner talk. House doesn’t have any
luck with the radio receiver, and tells Taub to tell Mickey that the tests will take weeks. Mickey
demands that they discharge him, just as House planned, and Taub goes to get the forms.
Once Mickey is discharged, Chase and Thirteen follow him. As they drive, they discuss the fact
that they’re playing with Foreman over their salaries to take him down a notch. Unfortunately,
they lose Mickey in traffic and a policeman pulls them over for speeding.
House stops by to see Nora at the mailbox and claim that they’re both straight. He then brings
in a poster of A Chorus Line, oohs and awes over it, and compliments Nora on her shoes.
Foreman tells Taub that he plans to wait until his review in August to ask for more money.
Taub agrees that’s what he’d do himself. . . but he’s a coward. They get a page about Mickey,
who has been brought in by Eddie after he collapsed again. He’s delirious and they treat for the
symptoms. The team meets except for Foreman, who is with Cuddy. House asks if Foreman fell
for the paycheck thing and compliments them. He then decides that it’s infection rather than
environment, and the symptoms have moved to his brain. Chase and Taub go to do a lumbar
puncture.
As they do the puncture, Mickey tells him that he knew they were following him, and he lost
them so he could take care of business. As they try to get a clear puncture, Mickey insists that
what he does is illegal, not immoral, and it’s nobody else’s business. Mickey’s heart rate remains
normal, despite the stress of the test.
Wilson goes to see House and confronts him over his plan to make it appear they were straight,
and how House is sabotaging the idea. House admits that he’s doing it to mess with Wilson, and
also so that he can hit on Nora by hanging out with her when he ”breaks up” with Wilson. He
figures that eventually he’ll get Nora to have sex with him. Wilson insists that he saw him first
and House figures he’s doing it because he’s going to lose. Chase arrives to tell House that Mickey
isn’t showing autonomic function, giving them a new symptom.
House goes to see Mickey and calls him a wuss, and says that he’s taking beta-blockers.
Mickey explains that he’s been doing something illegal, and he’s been buying pills to control the
stress. He doesn’t want Eddie to know so his partner doesn’t think he’s going soft. House realizes
that when they brought him to the hospital, he was cut off from his beta-blockers and suffered
withdrawal. Eliminating the withdrawal symptoms, House has a new diagnosis.
Wilson returns home to discover House giving Nora a massage, eating Chinese takeout, and
watching women’s TV. He sits down to have some with them.
As they run more tests, Taub asks Foreman how it went. Foreman explains that he got an
offer to run a neurological department, but it was a bluff and Cuddy called him. He plans to leave
once the case is over.
Wilson tries to explain to Nora that House is lying. She accuses him of lying and refusing to
admit that he’s gay. Nora figures that Wilson is jealous.
House returns and Taub and Foreman tell him that there’s no indication of the new diagnosis.
Thirteen is listening in on the radio receiver and has figured out how it works. However, she’s
unable to get an open frequency, and House realizes there must be at least one open frequency.
He goes to see Mickey and gets Eddie to leave by offering to do a rectal exam on Mickey in front of
him. Once Eddie is gone, House asks why Mickey is taken beta-blockers. He reaches under the
mattress and removes his bug. . . and then finds another one behind the pillow, one that Mickey
planted himself. They realize that Mickey is a cop working undercover.
House tells the rest of the team, but Foreman is unimpressed, noting it doesn’t help give them
a diagnosis. House has Chase and Thirteen go in and threaten to tell his superiors, but Mickey
points out they have no idea who he is or who he works for. Mickey notes that Gorski killed a
snitch a few weeks ago, and is planning to expand. If the team gets caught poking around, it’ll
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blow the arrest Mickey’s people have planned the next day. Thirteen says that he can’t risk his
life, but Mickey explains he’s been undercover for 16 months and asks them to keep him alive
for another 24 hours. Once the bust is completed, he’ll tell them what they need to know. Eddie
comes in and Mickey has another attack, caused by thrombosis bringing on a GI infarction.
The team removes the bowel to stop the attack, but they’re left to determine what is causing all
the symptoms. They suspect environment but have no way to narrow it down. Thirteen suggests
that they give Eddie the same symptoms so he’ll take them to his manufacturing plant. She
sits with him and offers him some coffee, and tells him that Mickey is getting worse. She tries
to convince him to tell her where Mickey has been, warning that Eddie and his people may be
at risk. Eddie starts to feel dizzy, but realizes that Thirteen has drugged him. She admits that
he’ll be fine in an hour and starts to leave, but Eddie wonders if Mickey could die. He finally
relents, saying it’s just a deal and his friend’s life is more important. He takes Thirteen to the dry
cleaners where they’ve been keeping their stuff. She takes environmental samples while Eddie
warns that they’re not supposed to be there. When one of his men arrives, Thirteen pretends
she’s a prostitute to cover and the man believes it.
House goes to dinner with Nora and bemoans how his relationship with Wilson is going. Nora
invites him to stay at her place, saying it’ll be fun. Wilson comes in and publicly declares that he
loves House, and he’s no longer going to deny it. He takes out a ring and proposes to him, and
Nora leaves to let them talk things over.
Taub and Thirteen go over the samples but don’t find anything. Thirteen figures the dry
cleaning chemicals are responsible and wait for the results. Chase comes in and worries that
their joke has gone too far and they need to talk to Cuddy. Foreman comes in as Thirteen
discovers the dry cleaning shop are using ”green” solvents. However, they still have nothing.
A scan shows a series of four pulmonary aneurysms, indicating a fungal infection. However,
none of the samples show fungal infection. House thinks Thirteen missed something but she
insists that she’s correct and House is forced to agree. They put Mickey on anti-bleeding meds
to stop the flow of blood into his lungs. Eddie tends to his partner and Mickey blames him for
taking Thirteen to the dry cleaners when it didn’t accomplish anything. Eddie admits that he
couldn’t just sit and do nothing while Mickey died, and insists that Mickey would do it for him.
He considers staying at Mickey’s side, but Mickey says he needs to finish the deal after all the
work they’ve put in. Eddie reluctantly agrees and Mickey says that he wishes he was there when
the deal goes down.
Chase, Thirteen, and Taub confess what happened with Foreman. They ask her to give Foreman his raise out of their paychecks. Cuddy agrees, but then tells them that she hasn’t seen
Foreman in three days. As they leave, they find Foreman outside, smirking.
Nora comes to see House, and he explains that he’s been screwing with Wilson to get to her.
She angrily starts to walk off, but House tells her that Wilson is a good guy and really likes her.
However, she realizes that House is still trying to sleep with her. House points out that Wilson
isn’t exactly a Boy Scout, and gets an idea.
House goes to see Mickey and explains the hypertension was a real symptom. He has an
auto-immune disease. Once it’s so far advanced, they can’t do anything. The aneurysms will
eventually rupture and Mickey will die. Thirteen points out that Mickey telling them everything
earlier wouldn’t have changed anything. Mickey says that he needs to call his wife.
Eddie goes ahead with his deal. The police arrive and arrest him and the others.
Mickey’s wife come to see him and is there when he dies.
As Eddie is lead away, he realizes who betrayed him.
House and Wilson are watching hockey in their new home and House figures that at least
Mickey died as a hero. Wilson notes that Nora talked to him, and now knows the truth: their
both dirtbags. Wilson starts singing musical numbers to get House to get rid of the sofa that he
hates.
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Remorse
Season 6
Episode Number: 121
Season Episode: 11
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Peter Blake
Andrew Bernstein
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Beau Garrett (Valerie), Shane Edelman (Bill), Ray Abruzzo (Wibberly),
Joseph Culp (Russ Smith), James McCauley (Norris), Kathleen MacDonald (Sarah), Jaime Alvarez (Jose)
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House decides to take on the case of a beautiful female executive based
on her looks, and the other males on the team are equally smitten.
Only Thirteen is able to remain unaffected as they try to determine
the cause of the woman’s illness. Meanwhile, House tries to resolve
his past with a former medical school colleague he wronged.
At an airfield, Valerie accompanies her
boss Norris to his plane and insists that
she’s not to blame for the recent mess-up
during their presentation. Valerie shows
him a text message confirming that her
co-worker Russ received her message. He
suddenly feels dizzy, throws up, and runs
off, insisting he isn’t drunk. Valerie tells
Norris that she wasn’t aware that Russ
was drinking. She goes to pick up something for her boss but suddenly clutches at her ears and screams in pain.
Foreman introduces the case to the team, which are meeting in Wilson’s office for reasons
only known to House. House isn’t interested until Foreman tells him that Valerie is hot and his
husband Bill isn’t hot or rich. House looks at the case and they note that Valerie changed her
diet to raw food. He figures that it’s heart-related, not ear-related. As they go to check, House
gets a message from someone called Wibberly but ignores it.
All of the male doctors congregate around Valerie and lead her away for testing, much to
Thirteen’s amusement.
Wilson arrives at his office and discovers House sleeping on the couch. House explains that
Lorenzo Wibberly, someone he knew in med school, keeps calling him. When Wilson wonders
why House can’t tell him to get lost, House notes that Wibberly was with him in group therapy,
and his doctor had him write an apology. House explains that he switches a paper from Wibberly
that caused him to fail. Wilson wonders why House didn’t apologize to him or Cuddy.
As they bring Valerie back to her room after the test for arrhythmia proves negative, they find
Russ waiting for her. He’s definitely drunk now, and accuses Valerie of poisoning him to make
him appear drunk earlier. He then gets up and grabs her, and Bill pulls him off. Russ says that
Valerie doesn’t love either one of them, but Valerie says he was under treatment for paranoid
tendencies. Russ admits that he was, but he had good reason to be. As Taub brings in security,
Russ leaves after threatening Valerie. Valerie assures her husband that Russ is making up the
affair, but Thirteen isn’t convinced.
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House is hiding out in Cuddy’s office and talks to the team by speakerphone. He wants to
make sure that Wilson doesn’t force him to go to lunch with Wibberly. The team suggests that
Russ may have dosed her coffee with his hyperthyroidism medicine, causing Valerie’s symptoms.
Everyone thinks that Russ did it except for Thirteen, who insists that Valerie is hiding something.
House suggests that Thirteen is taking out her relationship issues with Foreman and orders them
to give Valerie beta-blockers to counter the hyperthyroidism medicine. Once House cuts off to cut
up two photos, of Cuddy and a chimpanzee in one pictures, and Cuddy and Lucas together in
another, Foreman orders Thirteen to treat Valerie. However, House is interrupted when Wibberly
comes in, directed there by Wilson.
At the cafeteria, Wibberly thanks House for sending him the apology and explains that he’s
working at an organic supermarket chain. He never graduated med school because his father
got sick and he had to take care of him. When House wonders why he didn’t graduate, Wibberly
explains that he was one credit short... for the class where House switched papers.
Thirteen tells Valerie that she’s testing for a brain tumor, and then puts her in a MRI and has
her talk. She shows the results to Foreman: they indicate that Valerie can understand feelings,
but she can’t feel them herself. She’s a clinical psychopath. They report to House, who goes to see
Valerie and orders Bill out of the room. He then asks her how long she’s been a psychopath. He
notes she may not be violent, but she lacks conscience and lies pathologically. Valerie refuses to
confirm until House notes that they’re under an oath of confidentiality and just want to find out
to cure her heart condition. She explains she gave Russ a Valium and an emetic, and he knew
what he was getting into. Bill has a trust fund and she has a prenup. Valerie insists that everyone
she’s every known is out for themselves, and she is the only one who admits it to themselves.
Thirteen notes that it sounds like House. Outside, House explains that he really does believe
Valerie’s psychological problem is related to her heart. Foreman suggests tertiary syphilis and
House agrees, ordering penicillin treatment.
Afterward, Foreman complains to House that Thirteen flouted his authority and House’s. He
wants House to punish Thirteen, but House points out that it’s Foreman’s problem, not his.
Cuddy confronts him about the photo from Equador, a photo that her father took and is the last
thing she had that he touched. House admits that it wouldn’t do any good to apologize and goes
to see Wilson, who is with a Hispanic patient at the clinic. Wilson notes that he hasn’t responded
to House’s text messages about Wibberly, and House figures that Wibberly isn’t pissed because
he has an agenda. When Wilson suggests that Wibberly might be happier than House is, House
figures that Wibberly is happy and decides to check it out.
House goes to see Wibberly and realizes that he’s losing his home because of his father’s
medical debts, but says it could be worse. House wonders how.
As the team tries to explain why they’re testing Valerie for syphilis to her husband, Valerie
starts coughing. Once her husband goes to get some water, Valerie tells Thirteen that she’s going
to sue her for $19 million if she reveals to her husband what they learned about her psychological
problems. Once her husband returns, she goes back to acting normal. Thirteen turns her arm...
and Valerie’s bone breaks.
Valerie complains to Cuddy, but House defends her because the tests show kidney failure
that caused brittle bones. The kidney failure rules out syphilis. Foreman suggests lymphoma
and House orders radiotherapy. Thirteen suggests they use some of the urine they took when
she was admitted. Foreman argues against her, and House orders everyone else and then tells
Foreman and Thirteen to have sex so they stop arguing.
As they take Valerie away for radiation treatment, her husband asks Thirteen if it’s necessary.
Thirteen suggests that they test for environmental contamination, and her husband says that
Valerie did take a landscaping class at the YWCA. She asks him to find out where the class was
held.
In the radiation treatment room, House comes to visit Valerie for a second time and she
wonders why he wants to chat with her repeatedly when he almost never visits patients. She
suggests that he’s taken a personal interest in her because of her psychopathic tendencies, and
they argue over conscience. Valerie points out that conscience is an animal instinct, and one that
doesn’t to be followed.
Later, Bill comes back and tells Valerie that he discovered she wasn’t going to a landscaping
class. Valerie claims that she was at the office and pointed out that the only thing they’ve argued
about was her work. She claims she wants the job because it’s the only thing she has that’s her
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own, and tells him to call whoever he needs to as proof. Valerie embraces him... and smirks at
Thirteen, who has seen the entire thing.
Valerie calls in Cuddy to complain that Thirteen used her position to make it appear to Bill
that she was having an affair. Cuddy refuses to back down but removes Thirteen from the case
to protect Thirteen. As Thirteen goes, Valerie mocks her again, wondering if she’s going to cry.
Later, Thirteen is in the cafeteria when the medical board calls to tell her that a sexual harassment case has been filed against her. She goes in to yell at Valerie, but Foreman pulls her off in
private and says that she needs to be calm. Thirteen accuses him of being an unemotional jerk,
and Foreman apologizes for firing her, admitting it was a mistake on his part. Their interruption
is interrupted when they get a page: Blood from her liver is backing up into her esophagus. Her
only hope is a shunt to bypass the liver. Bill is reluctant to make the call, and admits he doesn’t
even know who his wife is any more. He finally tells Foreman to do what he needs to.
After surgery, the team figures that Valerie doesn’t have more than a day or two left. House
orders steroid treatment for hepatic fibrosis, their best guess, but she needs a new liver. Thirteen
figures that Bill has left Valerie, but Taub tells her that he’s staying with his wife until she’s
better. Thirteen thinks it’s pointless to find any of Valerie’s family and House notes that she’s
bitter because of the sexual harassment suit.
Wilson comes to see House, who is writing a check for Wibberly to cover his mortgage. Wilson
wonders why he won’t apologize to Cuddy, and points out that he can’t because he has feelings
for Cuddy. He figures that House finds it easier to pay money as an apology than to apologize to
someone he cares about, but House is determined to ignore him.
In the hallway, Thirteen notices Sarah, Valerie’s sister, sneaking away from her sister’s room.
Thirteen confronts her and admits she’s surprised that she’s there, and that she got tested to
see if her blood type was compatible. Sarah explains that their father was a drunk and Valerie
protected her from him. Then all of his abuse changed Valerie and made her cold. Thirteen
asks when it happened. She then goes to see House and tells him that the psychopathy is a
symptom, and it occurred at puberty. Putting it together with Valerie’s raw-food diet and nuts
with a high copper content House figures that it’s Wilson’s Disease. There’s one other way to
test and they check Valerie’s fingernails. They are blue, and House orders chelation. Thirteen
explains that her body can’t process copper, and it accounted for all of her symptoms. She warns
that the alterations to her brain are probably permanent. Thirteen asks to see Bill outside and
then explains that Valerie is playing along so that she can stay with Bill and get his money. He
says that he was happy before and that her feelings for him felt real. Bill wonders if that can be
enough.
House goes to see Wibberly and give him the check. Wibberly finally admits that he got an A+
with House’s paper, was a doctor for ten years, and then lost his license because his gambling
addiction led him to overcharge Medicare patients. He admits that he thought that House would
be the same bastard he was in med school, but figures that he’s now changed. Wibberly tries to
give the check back, insisting House gave him the A+. House tries to refuse but eventually gives
in.
The chelation stabilizes Valerie so that she can qualify for a liver transplant. Bill suggests
they go to a hut on a beach in Vietnam and take some time off. Valerie says that he’s pathetic
and the treatment is focusing her mind, making her see the truth about him. Bill walks out and
Thirteen asks why Valerie said what she did. She realizes the treatment worked on Valerie’s brain
and she’s feeling something. Valerie admits that she feels something, something that hurts, and
Thirteen tells her that it will.
Thirteen goes to see Foreman. He congratulates her on her diagnosis and she helps him
translate Taub’s writing on a discharge part. The two of them settle down and start working
together... peacefully.
House walks near Cuddy’s office and sees her with Lucas. He turns and walks away, and then
goes to Wibberly’s house and slips the check through the mail slot.
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Moving the Chains
Season 6
Episode Number: 122
Season Episode: 12
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David Straiton
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Davon McDonald (Daryl), Denise Dowse (Glenda), Trever O’Brien (Jim
Dunnagan), Orlando Jones (Marcus Foreman), Shon Little (Scout),
Harry Zinn (Coach Denning), Chris Robbins (Quarterback)
HOU-613
The team disagree on how to treat a pro football player who wants to
be cured in time to complete in the NFL tryouts. Meanwhile, Foreman’s
brother Marcus pays him a visit.
At a football training session, Daryl is
number 77. His mother Glenda talks to
a scout in the stands, praising her son,
and insists that he deserves a chance in
the NFL. Daryl suddenly goes berserk,
attacks another player, and then starts
smashing in his head with his own helmet.
Wilson wakes up and finds House using his bathtub to soak his leg. He’s less
than enthused about House doing so.
The team is watching video of their new patient, Daryl, as he goes berserk on the field. He
has no memory of what happened, but Chase has run a CT and there’s no indication brain. The
test for steroids is negative and there’s no indication of psychiatric problem. Foreman suggests
pituitary damage and everyone agrees. House agrees to the test to confirm but believes that Daryl
is taking steroids. As they leave, House tells Foreman that he has something else to do: pick up
his older brother Marcus when he gets out of prison later that day. Foreman refuses and walks
out.
Taub tests Daryl as Glenda looks on. He describes what they’re looking for and both Daryl
and Glenda are eager for Daryl to be cured so they can have him ready for the game where the
pro scouts will be checking Daryl out. Taub reluctantly says that if the pituitary is the source of
Daryl’s rage, they can operate and have him ready by Saturday.
House meets with a clinic patient, Jim Dunnagan, who claims he has eye problems. House
thinks he’s making it up to get out of military service, and the soldier points out that he’s being
stop-lossed and his wife is pregnant. Jim explains that he chose House because of his limp,
figuring he was a Vietnam veteran. House, insulted, jokingly notes that draft dodgers shot themselves in the foot. As he leaves, Taub arrives to inform him that there are no pituitary problems
and that the test indicates House must be right about the steroids. Taub tells Daryl, who denies
using steroids, and the football player suddenly starts suffering from tachycardia.
Foreman comes to see House. . . and discovers that Marcus is there already. House is happy
to tell Foreman that as part of his parole, Marcus is now working as House’s assistant. Foreman
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tells House about Daryl’s condition and then demands to see Marcus in private. He tells his
brother that he can’t work there but Marcus insists that he wants the chance to be Foreman.
Foreman warns that House is just hiring Marcus to screw with him, and Marcus angrily tells
him that it might be better if Marcus working there didn’t screw with him. Foreman insists that
he leave but Marcus refuses.
The next day, Wilson goes into the bathroom, and finds a opossum in his bathtub. Meanwhile,
the team meets and Taub admits that all of the tests of Daryl’s heart prove negative. Marcus
brings coffee for House. Foreman refuses to let it bother him and tries to discuss the case. House
insists on playing with him, relating a story Marcus told him about Foreman wetting the bed.
When Marcus brings up a story of a basketball player who collapsed, House seizes on it and
suggests hypertropic cardiomyopathy. Wilson arrives and demands to know what House is up
to. When House denies everything, Wilson vows revenge and leaves. House seems to have no idea
what he’s talking about, and orders the team to put Daryl on a treadmill to stress his heart and
provoke the condition again.
Foreman goes to Cuddy to object and explains that Marcus stole money from his parents to
pay for his drugs. Cuddy sympathizes but refuses to fire Marcus. Meanwhile, Wilson comes back
to tell House how much removing the opossum will cost, but House insists that Wilson left the
window open and it’s his fault. Wilson wonders why House hired Marcus, and finally accuses
him of being nice. As he leaves, Taub and Chase arrive and tell House that they were unable to
induce an attack in Daryl. House goes to see Daryl and gives him a vasodilator to exercise his
heart. As House takes Daryl’s hand, he notices that his hands are turning white.
Back in differential, the team tries to figure out what could cause poor blood circulation.
Foreman is more worried that House that has provided Marcus with a desk and nameplate. He
focuses to the case and suggests removal of the spleen in case it’s lymphoma. House orders an
ethanol drop since it will confirm or eliminate their two primary diagnoses.
As Foreman and Thirteen come to see Daryl, Marcus arrives and explains that House ordered
him to shadow Foreman and record everything he says. When Marcus demands that he wants
the chance to prove himself, Foreman notes that he’s already had plenty of chances.
Wilson comes to the cafeteria to see House. When he finds out that House is giving Marcus
ever more demeaning duties, he suggests that House is doing it so people won’t think he’s actually
doing something nice. House thinks he’s nuts, but they’re interrupted when Cuddy tells him that
the soldier shot himself in the foot. House goes to see him and warns him that it won’t keep him
out of duty. Jim insists that he’s a different man, a father with a wife and a kid on the way, but
House is unsympathetic and walks away.
Daryl asks Foreman what they’re waiting for, but Foreman refuses to tell him what to expect. The football player realizes that Marcus is Foreman’s brother because of the hate-filled
looks Foreman keeps giving Marcus. Daryl starts itching and Foreman tells him that confirms
lymphoma and they can remove his spleen laparoscopically and have him ready to play for the
game.
House gets in the tub to soak his leg, and then grabs the support rail he’s had installed. It
breaks away, dropping him into the tub. When Wilson comes home later, he finds House waiting
for him in the dark. Wilson insists he didn’t loosen the rail but House warns him that now it’s
war.
As Chase removes the spleen, he notices that Daryl’s liver is swollen, and they realize that
it’s not lymphoma. House comes in as the team goes over the new symptom, and starts mocking
Foreman with more childhood incidents from Marcus. Foreman refuses to react, and Marcus
admits he made the stories up. Taub suggests viral hepatitis caused by a doctor reusing a needle.
House orders them to test for hepatitis and then takes Marcus to lunch. He wants Marcus to
tell the truth about Foreman and his arrest for grand theft auto. However, Marcus insists that
Foreman was a good kid. However, House finally gets him to admit that Foreman was with him
when he stole a car. Foreman arrives and tells them that Daryl’s blood is clotting rapidly. House
tells him to treat with warfarin and sends him away. Marcus describes how Foreman and Marcus
got caught, and their mother was disappointed. Foreman vowed to never disappoint his mother
again. Marcus notes that their mother is dead, and House realizes that Foreman never told
anyone she had died recently. Marcus warns him never to bring it up with Foreman.
Foreman explains that they can treat Daryl for his blood thickening but that it will take
several weeks. Glenda and Daryl ask Foreman to wait for the treatment until after the game, but
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Foreman warns that he could die. They reluctantly agree.
House goes to see Wilson and explains that he’s deduced that since they don’t have a flathead screwdriver, Wilson couldn’t have sabotaged the guard rail. Further he explains that it must
prove he’s innocent as well since he’s refusing to escalate. House concludes that the opossum
was meant for him. The two men wait up all night to see who shows up. Wilson wonders if this
isn’t House’s whole plan to escalate things by keeping him awake, and finally gets up and goes
to bed. However, the sprinkler system goes on by itself and ruins their flat screen TV, and Wilson
realizes House would never sacrifice it. And House realizes that their nemesis is a genius.
The next day, Cuddy is waiting with the rest of the team, wondering where House is. He
comes in, ready to find the guilty party. Wilson explains what has been going on and Cuddy
angrily leaves. House then goes through the suspects one at a time. Chase says that he was
there monitoring the patient with Thirteen. Taub was with his wife, or so he claims. That brings
House to Foreman, who says he isn’t interested and doesn’t know where they lives. When House
says that Foreman’s a liar by omission, Marcus tells him to stop. House ignores him and tells
everyone that Foreman’s mother died. Wilson warns him that he’s off-topic but the others wonder
why Foreman didn’t say anything. Foreman insists that it’s no one’s business and Marcus snaps
at House. He quits and walks away, but Foreman ignores him and goes to give Daryl a fresh IV.
Daryl informs Foreman that he’s getting better and the team doctor has cleared him to play.
Glenda tries to stop Daryl, but her son says he’ll take the medicine after the game. Glenda asks
Foreman to go with her son.
House examines Jim’s wounded foot and tells him that he’s going to lose his toe because the
old antibiotics aren’t working. Jim is glad to hear it, until House tells him that missing a toe isn’t
a disqualification. House comments that he’ll lose the whole foot if they don’t switch him to new
antibiotics.
As they arrive at the stadium, Foreman asks Daryl why he’s risking everything. Daryl explains
that he’s doing it so he can take care of his mother, and it’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make. . . for
family. As Daryl starts to go outside, he goes blind and asks Foreman to take him back to the
hospital.
After dropping Daryl off at the hospital, Foreman calls the team and tells them that he drugged
Daryl’s water bottle to make him temporarily blind and convince him to go back to the hospital.
House tells them that they have a new symptom and shows them Daryl’s readmittance chart.
He only lost a single pound rather than ten or more pounds, and Chase suggests paraneoplastic
syndrome. It creates antibodies that battle cancer and act like growth hormones. House tells the
team to test Daryl for antibodies that mimic cancer.
Foreman goes to see Marcus at the halfway house and offers to get his job back. Marcus
figures that House won’t want him back once he realizes it doesn’t bother Foreman. When Marcus
vows that he won’t let him down, Foreman tells him not to promise anything, but invites him to
move in with him. Marcus steps forward and embraces his brother.
In the cafeteria, House and Wilson are trying to figure out who is responsible when Lucas trips
House and boasts that he’s trying to think of something funny to top the fire sprinkler incident.
Lucas explains that he knows all about how they bought Cuddy’s house out from under her.
Further, he tells them that he’s stopping all activities. If they seek revenge, he’ll tell Cuddy what
they did. House and Wilson are stricken speechless as Lucas walks off.
Daryl proves negative for cancer but it’s the only thing that can account for all the symptoms.
House gets an idea and goes to see Daryl. He explains that he’s darker because he has more
melanin, and checks Daryl’s body.. House notes that most black men get skin cancer on the
white parts of their body, and any bruises Daryl took elsewhere would have covered up any
moles. House finally finds a tumorous mole on his toe. Daryl wonders what the point of being
cured is since he lost his shot at the big time, but House says he’ll just have to put up with the
same kind of life all the other people in his class will have, without the student loans.
Lucas comes to see Cuddy, who suspects that he pranked House and Wilson. When he wonders why she didn’t want revenge, he speculates that she feels guilty about hurting House, or
guilty about being with Lucas. She insists it’s not worth the effort to go to war, and e quickly
withdraws his speculation.
Wilson tells House that Foreman and Marcus are together, and accuses him of provoking
Marcus to quit to bring him closer to Foreman. House denies it and then says he doesn’t plan
to get revenge on Lucas. Wilson figures that proves he’s right and leaves. House turns and sees
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Jim leave with his wife. . . after he’s let his foot infection spread so he had to have his lower leg
amputated, allowing him to stay with his wife.
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5 to 9
Season 6
Episode Number: 123
Season Episode: 13
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Thomas L. Moran
Andrew Bernstein
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Tracy Vilar (Nurse Regina), Maurice Godin (Dr. Hourani), Patrick St.
Esprit (Keith Tannenbaum), Celia Finkelstein (Gail), Mark D. Espinoza (Stan), J.D. Jackson (Ronald Westbrook), John Lacy (Dr. Dave
Thomas), Ron Perkins (Dr. Simpson), Nigel Gibbs (Sanford Wells), Anthony Tyler Quinn (Eli Morgan), Jeremy Howard (Oscar), Kim Estes
(Hall), Liz Benoit (Nurse Anne), Rajni Kareer (Claudia), Mary Mackey
(II) (Board Member), Bernardo Verdugo (Martin), Tara Rice (Masseuse),
Kathleen Antonia (Marina Alexander), Frank Rutolo (Business Executive)
HOU-614
It’s a day in the life of Cuddy when she has to deal with her personal
and professional life, insurance contract negotiations, a thieving pharmaceutical technician, an ailing daughter, and House and his team.
It’s 5 a.m. in the morning, and Cuddy
gets up, exercises, and takes care of
Rachel. She then showers and dresses for
work as the sitter arrives. Lucas comes in
and Cuddy says that Rachel isn’t feeling
well and she’s running late. He suggests
that she stay for ten more minutes for
sex, despite the fact she has a proposal
to present in less than an hour. As they
go to bed, House calls but she ignores it.
The experience is less than satisfying for Cuddy by the time Lucas finishes, and she looks at
herself in the mirror and tells herself she can do it.
Cuddy arrives at work, and Nurse Regina greets her. House is waiting for Cuddy and tries to
discuss his current case. When she refuses, he explains that he was on a stakeout with Lucas,
and they bet whether House could interrupt them in the middle of sex. Cuddy refuses to confirm
or deny and leaves to deal with a pharmacy emergency. It turns out a supplier sent double the
number of meds they sent, and Oscar the pharmacy tech can’t find the P.O. She tells Oscar to
refer it to Gail, who is out sick. As she goes, she wonders if it was Vicodin but confirms it’s
Ephedrine. She tells Oscar to get Gail in as soon as possible.
As Cuddy goes to meet with her 8:30 appointment, Dr. Hourani calls in with another emergency: House has lowered the temperature in the operating theater to force him out. Cuddy
heads for her appointment with Atlantic Net Insurance and House meets her, explaining that
his patient needs immediate surgery. Cuddy ignores him, heads for the meeting, gets a call from
her sitter Marina that Rachel is running a fever, and then gets another call that her 8:30 appointment is there. She arrives at her office and finds the Atlanticnet representative, Eli Morgan,
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waiting for her. She asks if he’s ready to give ground and refuses to come back to the negotiation
table. Cuddy gives him an offer of a 12% increase and Eli refuses. As he goes, Cuddy warns that
they’re going to terminate the contract. Eli warns that she’s bluffing, but Cuddy tells her that he
has until 3 p.m. when she’s going to make the announcement public.
As Cuddy leaves for her board meeting, House is waiting for her outside. She wonders what
he’s heard and House explains that he figures either she or Eli made an ultimatum. He hopes
that she wasn’t bluffing and Cuddy insists that she is. As they head for the elevator, Taub
and Thirteen arrive with word on their patient, Mr. Pluta, who is having heart problems and
hallucinations. Cuddy refuses to let House infect Pluta with malaria. He starts discussing the
case as Cuddy gets away.
As Cuddy arrives at her board meeting, Chief of Surgeon Dr. Dave Thomas is waiting for her
and tells her that she can’t keep catering to House. He wants Chase back and threatens to quit
if she doesn’t do her job. Cuddy then talks to the board, and they want to know why they don’t
have a deal. She explains what she did and that she plans to terminate the contract. One of
the members, Sanford, warns they’ll lose 80% of their patients but Cuddy insists the insurance
company will give in. He says that they can’t stop her, but if the negotiations don’t work out,
she’s fired.
In the elevator, alone, Cuddy briefly loses her composure and then heads to the clinic. House
hasn’t shown up so Cuddy takes on a patient, Hall, who insists he has cancer. He insists he
needs human breast mark, which has cancer-fighting qualities. If he can get Cuddy to prescribe
it, the insurance company will reimburse him. When she refuses, Hall wonders if she’s shilling
for the insurance company and points out that it can’t hurt him. He begs her to help but she
refuses.
Cuddy is still scrambling to fill things in and Nurse Regina warns that there’s a lawyer, Ronald
Westbrook, in her office. He informs her that he’s representing Martin Acevedo, who is suing
Chase. Chase reattached Martin’s thumb after he cut it off from a table saw, but the client
doesn’t want it attached. Chase explains that he couldn’t just let the man toss it away, so he
reattached the thumb without his permission. Cuddy tells him the insurance company is suing
so they don’t have to pay the $80,000 bill.
Next, Cuddy meets with Gail, who admits that she’s was purchasing drugs through the hospital to get weight-loss pills so she wouldn’t lose her husband. She begs Cuddy to give her a
second chance, and Cuddy agrees not to report the theft. However, she has to fire her despite
her perfect record for the last seven years.
Cuddy goes to the cafeteria for lunch, and Wilson tries to reassure her. He doesn’t think the
board will fire her. . . until he hears what she did. Cuddy keeps leaving messages for her sitter,
and admits that Lucas is avoiding her because he’s figured she knows about his bet with House.
She asks Wilson what she should do, and Wilson suggests that she should ask House, the
master manipulator. She figures it’s complicated enough already and goes to her office. House
is in her chair, using her computer to browse porn. He needs her signature to treat his patient
with malaria, and she realizes that he has a bet to see if he can use malaria as a diagnostic tool.
House points out that she’s taking a much bigger gamble against the insurance company and
leaves.
Lucas arrives with lunch for Cuddy, and she tells him that she knows about the bet. He vows
not to do it, and Cuddy demands to know if Rachel is okay. Lucas tells her that the fever has
broken and she has a little bit of diaper rash. He tells her to relax but she doesn’t. Cuddy dials
Marina again and Lucas realizes he grabbed Marina’s phone. He also turned off the ringer at
home so he could sleep. Lucas offers to find some dirt on Eli and Cuddy gets an idea.
Cuddy goes to a restaurant and finds the CEO of the insurance company, Keith Tannenbaum.
She makes his case to him and points out that their profits could fund the hospital for two years.
Cuddy warns him that she’ll portray him as a rich bastard in the press to put pressure on him,
but Tannenbaum is fine with that as long as he’s rich.
As Cuddy tries to slip out, Stan, the head of Pharmacology, tells her that ten cases of drugs,
$50,000, are missing. She figures Gail is supplying a meth lab and tells Stan to get Gail back
in there. Cuddy returns to her office and finds Eli with a new proposal: 8%, up from 4%. Cuddy
insists on 12% and Eli warns she’s not going to get it.
Cuddy goes to the stairwell for a few minutes to pace nervously. When she comes out, House
is waiting for her and tells her that he needs a transplant surgeon. He wants her to get Hourani
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to perform the operation. She finally breaks down and asks him what he would do. House tells
her to stick to the numbers and not worry about what’s fair or unfair. She notes he’d risk his job
over it, but he points out he’s the kind of guy who infects a patient with malaria to win a bet.
It’s 3 o’clock and Cuddy goes to the press conference. Everyone is gathered, including House’s
staff, and she tells them that they’ll no longer be accepting patients with Atlanticnet health
insurance. The staff breaks into an uproar and demand answers.
Back in her office, Cuddy waits for Marina to call back. Foreman arrives and tells her that
House and Thomas are butting heads over having Chase doing the surgery. Only Cuddy can
make the final decision. She goes to see House and discovers that he’s with a masseuse. Cuddy
tells him to get his department under control, but he warns that she has bigger problems and
the insurance company isn’t going to fold.
Cuddy calls a meeting with Ronald and his client, and Cuddy points out that she still has a
thumb. She notes that the insurance won’t pay the hospital because of the suit, but she’ll cover
half of Martin’s deductible and help him to refile. When Ronald objects, Cuddy notes that it costs
the hospital much more to do the operation. Ronald prepares to walk, and Martin admits that
he can’t afford to pay. Cuddy reminds him that he has a thumb, and gets a page. She discovers
Thomas, Foreman, Hourani, Thomas, and Chase fighting outside the operating theater while
House looks on.
After she breaks up the fight, Gail arrives and Cuddy goes to see her. When she says she’s
calling the DEA, Gail threatens to lie and accuse House and Cuddy of being in on it while having
an affair. Cuddy has had enough, says she’s quitting, and goes to her car in the parking garage.
House finds her and gets in. She admits that House owes Lucas the money on the bet, and he
tells her that Hall came to him and he wrote the prescription. House tells her that she’s not going
to quit because she’s too stupid. Cuddy then asks him about Gail, and he admits that he always
figured her for a psychopath.
Cuddy gets an idea and asks Gail in, and says she’ll do what she can. When she insists that
Gail is a good person at heart, Gail says that she started stealing six months after she arrived,
and Cuddy is an idiot for not realizing it. She promises to take Cuddy down with her and leaves.
After she leaves, Cuddy reveals to Regina that she secretly taped the conversation, and then goes
to hand in her resignation. As she goes, Marina finally calls and assures her that Rachel is fine.
As she runs for the elevator, Eli comes to her and admits he’s surprised that she did it. He tells
her that she got her 12% and congratulates her. Cuddy cheers as everyone looks on.
The board and the staff congratulate Cuddy as she gives them the news. House just smiles.
As she returns to her office, she discovers that Martin accepted her deal and left her a check for
the first installment of the $16,000. She rips it up.
Cuddy goes home and lies in bed with Lucas and Rachel. And House calls again.
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Private Lives
Season 6
Episode Number: 124
Season Episode: 14
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Doris Egan
Sanford Bookstaver
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Laura Prepon (Frankie), Adam Rothenberg (Taylor), Christina Vidal
(Sandy), Gonzalo Menendez (Stuart), Elena Evangelo (Belinda), Dava
Krause (Cashier), Catherine Kresge (Joan), Linda DeMetrick (Hostess),
David Loren (Stag-Man), Jennifer Kristin Cox (Moon Woman), Tracy
Esposito (Leeanne), Anise Fuller (Melodie), Tonya Kay (Chloe), Annie
Weirich (Dionne), Alexandra Cramer (Grace), Lindsay Halladay (Nicole),
Tina Sanchez (Elizabeth), Pamela Rooney (Mary)
HOU-615
The team tries to diagnose a famous blogger but discover that her insistence on communicating on the Internet about her case interferes
with their ability to cure her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson each discover secrets about each other, and Chase is convinced to go on a
date.
Blogger Frankie is at her computer
typing for the world and discussing an argument with her boyfriend Taylor. As she
types, she eats food on her new vegetarian diet. Taylor comes out to ask if she’s
coming to bed, and discovers that she
blogged their argument. He isn’t happy
that she is sharing his life with strangers.
Someone pounds on the door and Taylor
goes to talk to a neighbor, Stuart, who is
complaining about them fighting. As Frankie comes up, Taylor realizes that she has bruises on
her face. Stuart thinks they had a fight and starts to call the police, and Frankie’s gums begin to
bleed.
Come the morning, Wilson wonders what House has been doing with himself. House admits
he’s been watching porn and Wilson invites him to come with him when he speed-dates that
night. House isn’t interested, until Wilson notes that he has a chance to meet women.
At work, the team brings Frankie’s case to House and discuss privacy as well as the bruising,
indicative of coagulopathy. They suspect toxins and House sends Taub and Thirteen to check out
Frankie’s apartment. As they search the place, Thirteen is surprised that Taub is anti-privacy.
The neighbor, Stuart, comes over after he hears them. Taub would rather try and get out, but
Thirteen says that they are Frankie’s doctors. Stuart notes that he put out rat poison and Frankie
keeps picking it up so the rats don’t suffer.
House arrives at the bar for speed-dating and discovers that Wilson has invited Chase. Chase
insists it’s not about looks, so House bets that he’ll still end up with a woman even if he pretends
to be slow and unemployed. The speed-dating begins and Wilson ends up discussing cancer.
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House is his usual self, and Chase can’t keep the women away. House actually finds a woman
who seems interesting: a police detective. She likes puzzles and despises idiots, but he realizes that she’s lying and moves on to the next woman. Afterward, Chase gets the most women
interested in him and House collects on his bet.
At the hospital, Taub and Foreman go to see Frankie and discover that she’s blogging, and
that she has a fan in the room reading Frankie’s blog on her own laptop. Frankie insists she
washed her hands but the doctors discover a new symptom when she goes to the bathroom: her
urine has turned a dull brown, meaning it isn’t rat poison.
The team goes into differential to consider the fact Frankie’s kidneys are acting up. House
notices Wilson walking by and asks where his porn DVDs are. Wilson insists that he returned
them to the store, and House wonders why. His friend says he wanted the apartment to be pornfree in case he brought a woman home. House then returns to the team and orders saline and
Mannitol treatment for Haff Disease.
That night, Wilson comes to see House, who is watching his laptop, and suggests that he
read Frankie’s blog. House isn’t interested, and Wilson notes that Frankie blogged about House.
House brings up the porn DVDs and notes that he checked at the store and Wilson only returned
two of the. Wilson tries to explain but House isn’t interested and points out that he’s watching
the DVD on the laptop. Wilson has no choice but to explain that he was in the video because
his roommate convinced him to participate. His friend added new porn scenes to get it released
and the man who takes over later isn’t Wilson. Wilson insists that no one can know about it and
House promises not to say anything. As he leaves, Thirteen admits she heard about it.
Chase is going over Frankie’s blog when Thirteen comes in. She notes that one of Frankie’s
readers offered to donate a kidney. Chase asks Thirteen for an objective answer about whether
he’s a good-looking man. He realizes that everything is physical, and then realizes that Frankie’s
condition may have to do with her lack of arousal that she mentions in her blog. He takes Frankie
to test for Sjogren’s and they discuss relationships, and Frankie wonders how honest he was with
Cameron. He asks her to lie on her back but she says that she can’t due to the pain.
Later, Chase goes to tell the team that Frankie has heart valve issues brought on by Sjogren’s
and he’s ordered surgery. The x-rays confirm his diagnosis and even House is impressed. They
explain the treatment to Frankie and note she has to choose between a pig valve or a plastic
valve. The plastic valve could cause birth defects because of the anticoagulants required, while
the pig valve will wear out in ten years and she’ll need surgery again. They leave Frankie and
Taylor to discuss it, and she wants to ask her blog readers. Taylor warns against it, saying they’ll
influence her against the pig valve because they’re pro-animal rights. She insists on doing it in
the interests of total honesty.
Wilson enters his office and discovers posters from the porn video in his office. He quickly
discovers that everyone in the hospital knows about his role. Wilson goes to Chase and asks for
his help finding some dark secret from House’s past. Chase points out how unlikely that is, but
then notes that House is supposedly reading The Golden Bowl, but it’s too small and he’s not
using his reading glasses. They figure it’s something House is ashamed of to have.
After hearing from her readers, Frankie says she’s going with the plastic valve. Taylor points
out that she once told him that she didn’t want to be alone, but now she’s too worried about
getting hits and providing entertainment for her readers. He warns her that if she continues, he
won’t be there for her.
Chase and Wilson search House’s office and soon discover a book containing sermons. Wilson
wonders why he would hide it, and tells Chase not to mention it to anyone.
As Frankie goes into surgery, she asks Taylor if he’ll be there when she wakes up. She hates
that she doesn’t know what he’s thinking without a blog, and Taylor says that they need to
get her through surgery. She suddenly has chest pains and vomits. Afterward, they tell her
that her appendix burst, and it contained cells consistent with lymphoma. They’ve postponed
the heart surgery, but the lymphoma will soon kill her. Cuddy has approved an experimental
procedure to create a targeted lymphoma vaccine, and the team warns that without it, Frankie
has a year at most. Taylor offers to stand behind her and Frankie immediately gives her approval.
As they leave, Chase wonders if Frankie is in denial and suggests it might be a symptom. He then
approaches a nurse, Sandy, and asks if he can borrow her car.
Later, as they prepare the vaccine, Chase tells Thirteen that Sandy just loaned him her car
without questions, and that he’s been getting by on his looks. Thirteen tries to reassure him and
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suggests that it’s better to take people as they come.
House comes home and Wilson confronts him with the book. When House tries to lie about it,
Wilson doesn’t believe him and wonders if he’s looking for irrational answers. House insists that
he’s all right but Wilson wonders if he’s back on Vicodin. His friend denies it and simply takes
the book back, while Wilson wonders what it means.
When House comes to work the next day, he discovers that Wilson has given everyone copies of
the book and told them that House is reading it. Chase tells them that Thirteen is giving Frankie
her third treatment, and that he got copies of the book by contacting the author. House seems
worried that the author might have mentioned him. Frankie has a reaction to the vaccine while
she was sleeping, and the team report to Cuddy. House finds it curious that Frankie was sleeping
during the day, and checks the time stamps on her blogs. Until recently, she was only posting
during the day. Now she’s suffering from day-night reversal, which indicates liver disease, and
he tells them to biopsy her liver.
After tests, the team explains to Frankie that she doesn’t have lymphoma, which is why the
vaccine hurt her. They don’t know the nature of the cells that were in her appendix. However,
she’s dying more quickly than they thought, and only has three or four days. Frankie snaps at
them and they realize she’s moved past denial.
Back in differential, the team concludes that Frankie has an infection but there’s nothing to
account for it. House figures there’s something Frankie isn’t saying, but Chase points out that
she’s told everyone everything. The best House can do is order treatment for broad-spectrum
antibiotics. He then reads over Frankie’s blogs and thinks about the case. Wilson comes in and
explains that he finally realized that the author is House’s biological father. House claims he was
only mildly curious but Wilson doesn’t believe it. When he talks about crap, House gets an idea
and goes to see Frankie for the first time. He asks if she’s had a hard or soft bowel movement.
She’s reluctant to discuss it and House realizes that she never said anything about her bowel
movements on her blogs. She has Whipple’s Disease, which caused malabsorption, and the cells
built up in her appendix. Now they can cure her, although she’ll still need a heart valve and
medication for a few years. Once they leave, Frankie decides to go with the pig valve so they can
have children. In response, Taylor gives her the laptop and invites her to blog.
As they prepare to leave, Chase wonders if it’s better to make contact with people in person or
over the Internet. Thirteen wonders why he’s so hung up on looks, and finally figures that he’s
worried that he didn’t feel anything real for Cameron. She tells him that he’s paranoid. . . and
refuses to loan him his car.
Wilson confronts House and wonders why he chose to read his biological father’s book instead
of going to see him. He figures that House has been alone his whole life, and hoped that he could
recognize a kindred spirit. When House doesn’t respond, Wilson asks if he found anything. House
says that underneath the God stuff, all he found was more God stuff. They walk out beneath a
giant poster of Wilson’s porn movie that House has hung up in the lobby.
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Black Hole
Season 6
Episode Number: 125
Season Episode: 15
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Lawrence Kaplow
Greg Yaitanes
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Cali Frederichs (Abby Nash), Nick Eversman (Nick), Dennis Boutsikaris (Artie), Sunil Malhotra (Mr. Damon), Michelle Duffy (June),
Callie Thompson (Young Abby), Molly Kasch (Jeanine), Floriana Lima
(Gabriella), Danna Brady (Maya)
HOU-616
House and team tries to diagnose a high school senior suffering from
blackouts and hallucinations, and are forced to take a controversial
approach. Meanwhile, Wilson attempts to furnish his new condo, and
Taub brings his personal life into the workplace.
At a high school field trip to a planetarium, Abby and her boyfriend Nick discuss how they’re going to going to separate parts of the country, and share a hidden drink of booze. When their teacher,
Mr. Damon, observes them, Abby claims
that she’s drinking water for her cough.
Damon then quizzes Nick on the evolution of life. Bored, Nick turns to Abby and
discovers tat she’s passed out and bloody
froth is oozing from her mouth.
House is at home at the condo eating breakfast and Wilson asks him to clean up after himself
and use a table. When he refuses, Wilson tells him to buy a table and House realizes that Wilson
is afraid to reveal his internal feelings and buy some furniture. He dares Wilson to do it and
Wilson considers it before leaving.
The team goes over Abby’s tests as House arrives and notes that the bleeding was caused by a
pulmonary edema, but there’s no sign of trauma. He’s already figured out that Cuddy made them
take the case, and wonders where Taub is. Chase claims that he had a flat tire and is waiting for
a tow truck. House believes that Abby is a heavy drinker and tells them to call Taub and get him
there while running tests.
At home, Taub and his wife Rachel are arguing over the fact that she wants them to do more
stuff together. She finally tells him to go to work and insists everything is fine, and stalks off. As
Taub arrives at the hospital, Nick and his father Artie corner him. Nick insists that Abby doesn’t
drink but Artie isn’t convinced by his son’s assertions. He asks Taub to tell Abby that he loves
her.
Taub arrives at the MRI where Chase is running the test. After passing on Nick’s message,
Chase notes that House doesn’t believe Taub’s story, and Taub complains that Rachel wants
him to do yoga with him. He asks Chase for marriage advice, and Chase points out that’s not a
good idea. They spot a mysterious spot on the mitral valve and take it to the others. They’re not
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sure what it is, and House is interested in Taub lying about the fight with his wife. He orders
Thirteen and Taub to test Abby with a transesophageal echo, and Thirteen wonders why Taub is
lying. She figures that Rachel thinks he’s cheating on her, but Taub doesn’t know how to prove
otherwise. As they run a scope to her heart, she goes into convulsions as her heart ruptures.
They get her to the OR, cut her open, and manage to stimulate the heart into beating.
Back in differential, Taub suggests a genetic defect and Thirteen wonders if it’s an allergy.
Chase points out that Abby should be getting better, and Thirteen wonders if it’s something in
her. They ask Nick for a sperm sample, but he insists that he uses a condom at first. Nick finally
admits they had unprotected sex the night before Abby collapsed. As Chase tests Abby, Abby’s
mother Michelle is relatively understanding, Abby suddenly has stomach pains and shows blood
in her urine, indicating kidney failure.
The team goes back over the case with the new symptom. Chase suggests cancer and Foreman
suggests that they do a full-body scan. House reluctantly agrees and Taub discusses faithfulness
with Foreman. The best Foreman can do is suggests that Taub takes his wife with him wherever
he go. Taub insists he wants his wife to be happy.
House returns home to discover Wilson has furnished the entire condo, and appears impressed.
Inside the scanning chamber, Abby hallucinates an earthquake and then watches as the
entire room is sucked into a black hole. She tries to hold on to but is pulled out and plummets
downward. . .
Foreman and Taub check on Abby and discover that she’s hallucinating. The team reviews
the new symptom while House notices Taub messaging his wife. At the grocery store, Rachel gets
a series of increasingly dirty messages from Taub. She’s amused, but is unaware that House has
grabbed the phone from Taub and added the last message. House notes that it doesn’t prove
Taub is faithful to his wife. The rest of the team tries to analyze Abby’s hallucination and House
suggests they use a cognitive recognition pattern program. Foreman is skeptical and House tells
them to do a MRA first and then they’ll go with the CRP program after that turns up negative.
Taub gets up and walks out past House.
Wilson comes home and discovers all of the furniture is gone. He goes to see House at the
hospital cafeteria and demands to know where the furniture is. House says that he returned
it because he rented it without knowing what it meant. He dares Wilson to buy one piece of
furniture that he likes.
Abby wakes up to find Nick at her bedside. She asks him to stay and he kisses her. Taub
and Foreman arrive outside and witness the exchange. Abby starts to hallucinate again, and
finds herself alone in her room with her younger self, who says they have a secret. In reality,
Nick proposes to Abby, but she’s busy listening to her younger self telling her to tell Nick their
secret because it’s killing her. Young Abby tells her that she deserves to die as Abby goes into
convulsions.
The MRA proves negative and House is ready to analyze her out-of-body experience. It’ll take
time to get the CRP equipment and Foreman in particular is against it, but House notes it’s the
only shot they have. As the others go to get the equipment, Taub stops to see Rachel as she
arrives at the hospital and leads her away.
Foreman explains the procedure to Abby, her mother, and Nick and his father. It will generate
a video of what is going on in her head, and they can analyze it to determine what her subconscious believes is wrong with her. Everyone is worried but Foreman warns that they’ve got
nothing else.
Taub and Rachel make out in their car, but she briefly wonders where he got the idea and if
he’s done it with someone else. As they talk, House knocks on the window and tells Taub to get
inside.
Abby undergoes the procedure and tries to formulate an image. She’s able to generate an
image of Nick playing baseball, but Foreman is unimpressed and notes they need to get a rational
manifestation of a subconscious image.
Wilson is trying to buy furniture and tries to get help from the clerk, who isn’t particularly
helpful. He’s unable to choose anything and finally another clerk, Gabriella, comes over to help.
She’s impressed with his daring, and so is he until he realizes he’s looking at patio furniture.
The team continues to monitor Abby’s subconscious and watch as images of the sky and
moon appear. Someone appears: her father, who died of a plane crash when Abby was eight.
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Even House is unable to make anything of it. Thirteen suggests liver issues but it can’t account
for aorta dissection. Foreman gets an idea and suggests the pineal gland is obscuring a tumor.
House orders tests to confirm.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy about his issues with buying furniture. She points out that it’s more
telling that House is telling Wilson how to buy furniture, and directs him to an interior decorator.
Foreman reports to House that there are elevated isoenzyme levels but no sign of a tumor. The
enzyme levels suggest an allergy, like one caused by a Middle Eastern parasite, but there’s no
other sign of an allergy. House admits that they have nothing and the only way they’ll diagnose
Abby is with an autopsy. He goes over all of the scans and Taub comes in to tell him he’s leaving
for the night. House asks if he’s having an affair. Taub says he doesn’t, and doesn’t want to have
an affair, and House wonders if Taub stopped because of the age difference. Then he gets an idea
and realizes that Artie is the father in Abby’s hallucinations.
House goes to see Artie and asks where he’s been. When Artie confirms that he’s traveled to
the Mediterranean, House says that he infected her with a parasite. Her body’s defenses killed
the parasite, but the shell set off an allergic reaction that can be cured. However, House notes
that it’s spread by sexual fluids, and he can only treat it if it’s confirmed. Artie has to admit that
he slept with Abby so House can treat her. Artie admits that after Abby and Nick broke up, he
ended up with Abby. Nick walks away, angry.
House returns home and finds the apartment, furnished. He realizes that Wilson used a
decorator and accuses him of wussing out. Wilson says that’s who he is, someone who hires a
decorator. However, House notices one covered item and reveals it: a Wurlitzer organ. He sits
down to play and admits he likes what it says about Wilson.
Chase and Taub treat Abby.
Artie tries to talk to Nick about what happened. Nick walks away.
Taub looks over his wedding pictures and Rachel sits down next to him. He then kneels down
and asks her to marry him again, so he can do it better the second time. Rachel accepts and they
kiss.
As Nick goes to see Abby, Taub and House watch. The two teenagers reconcile and House
realizes that Rachel said yes to him. He congratulates Taub, who walks away... talking with an
attractive nurse.
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Lockdown
Season 6
Episode Number: 126
Season Episode: 16
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Eli Attie, Eli Attie, Peter Blake (IV), Peter Blake (IV), Russel Friend,
Garrett Lerner
Hugh Laurie
Robert Chase)
Bergstrom (Nurse)
David Strathairn (Nash), Neill Barry (Donald Lozinski), Riki Lindhome
(Sarah Lozinski), Vernee Watson-Johnson (Nurse Smits), Shelly Cole
(Nurse Adrienne Maldonado), Riley Thomas Stewart (Walker), Dava
Krause (Daria), Al Foster (Davies), Tom Billett (Security Guard #1)
HOU-617
Princeton Plainsboro goes on lockdown after a newborn disappears
from the nursery. House is trapped with an inquisitive patient, Foreman and Taub are sealed in the records room, Wilson and Thirteen
play Truth or Dare, and Chase is locked in with a familiar face.
A newborn is delivered into the world
and the parents discuss what to name
her. Her parents Donald and Sarah and
their son Walker visit later and Donald
goes to get something to eat. Meanwhile,
Chase is paged to the front desk and finds
Cameron waiting for him. She asks if they
can talk.
Donald returns and finds his son and
wife asleep. He looks for the baby and discovers that she’s gone. They notify security, who confirms that no one has left the hospital. Cuddy
meets with Donald and determines that the proximity alarm on the baby’s bracelet didn’t go off,
meaning the baby is still in the hospital. She puts the hospital under lockdown.
Cameron wants to know why Chase won’t sign the divorce papers. He wants to talk but
Cameron leaves the papers and storms out... only to discover that she’s been locked in the area.
Wilson and Thirteen are locked up in the cafeteria, while Taub and Foreman are caught in
the records room. House is forced to leave the hallway and enters a patient’s room. Meanwhile,
Cuddy tries to calm down Sarah, and Donald wonders why the police aren’t talking to their
nurse, Smits.
Thirteen and Wilson try to find a way to kill time and end up playing Truth or Dare.
Cuddy talks to Smits, who notes that Walker pinched the baby when he held her.
Foreman finds Taub looking through the records, and Taub explains that he’s found the
staff credential files. They can look up anything on anyone, and Foreman is initially reluctant.
However, he agrees that they can look at House’s records.
House tries to find something on the television and notices that the room’s patient, Nash, is on
morphine. He starts diagnosing why his heart disease is preventing the morphine from working,
and Nash admits that he has a day or two left at most. Nash knows who House is and explains
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that he sent a letter to House asking him to take his case. House refused to take something as
mundane as heart disease, and Nash wonders if it bothers him. House isn’t concerned.
Wilson and Thirteen continue and he asks if she’s had a threesome. He’s surprised to learn
that she hasn’t. Meanwhile, the police patrol the hallways and Sarah insists to Cuddy that Walker
wouldn’t have done anything with the baby. Cuddy points out that Walker is her stepson, and
Sarah admits that Walker has been fighting recently, hitting hard enough to draw blood.
Chase and Cameron talk, and Chase stands by his decision to murder the dictator. She
wonders what is going to happen and points out she isn’t going to reason her into coming back.
Taub and Foreman go over House’s files and discover that he’s faked all of his files by claiming
Cuddy was his patient every time. Foreman has some Vicodin and suggests that they take some
so they can really get into House’s head.
House notes that Nash doesn’t have any cards or flowers, and Nash explains that he is a
professor with few friends. When House suggests that he disable the morphine regulator and let
him drift off quietly, Nash isn’t interested.
Thirteen and Wilson discuss how her father reacted to her coming out, and she notes that
he didn’t react. She asks him if he’s dating and he dodges the question, but then she refuses to
answer his question about Foreman. Wilson then dares her to show her breasts to Taub and she
agrees to do it... eventually.
Cuddy talks to Walker, who admits that he hates Brooke. However, he insists that he didn’t
do anything with the baby.
Nash offers House his morphine, and House admits that he’s just been taking ibuprofen.
When he admits he doesn’t want to test for the source of the pain, Nash figures that it’s a
woman. House realizes he’s projecting and asks who the woman in Nash’s life is, and Nash
refuses to answer at first. Instead he asks what time it is and House figures he’s waiting for
someone so he won’t take the morphine.
Foreman and Taub relax a little too much under the influence of the drugs and start fighting. Taub notices Foreman’s credential file and realizes that’s why Foreman came down there.
Foreman chases after him to get it back.
Cameron agrees to answer Chase’s questions in return for his signing the papers. He asks if
she ever loved him and points out that she was on drugs the first time they had sex. Cameron
insists that she did but Chase notes all the times that she got cold feet, and that he couldn’t
stand up to the memory of her dead husband. She finally admits that she doesn’t know if she
loved him, and he thanks her for her honesty.
Thirteen returns to Wilson’s future dating and she notes he doesn’t want to talk about this
love life. When he refuses, she dares him to steal a dollar from the cash register.
Taub discovers that Foreman was on academic probation for faking a lab result, and figures
Foreman came down there to destroy the record before it got digitized. Foreman admits that he
figured he had to beat the rich kids, and Taub points out that he didn’t have to do it. He wonders
why Foreman felt he had to destroy the records 12 years later, and figures Foreman doesn’t
believe he belongs at Princeton. Foreman finds Taub’s files and the chase starts again.
House talks about Nash’s lost love and how pathetic it is, and Nash finally admits that it’s
his daughter, Gracie. He explains that he left his family when she was six when he had an affair
with a student, and never loved his wife. Gracie, a dance teacher in Atlanta, will get home at 9
and he plans to call her when she gets home. Nash asks House what his secret is, and House
explains that he’s always preferred to be alone, until he met a woman at the psychiatric hospital
who left. He figures that they’re all better off alone.
Wilson approaches the cashier, Daria, and tries to get her to fix a sandwich. He claims that
Thirteen needs it but Daria wonders why cold chicken salad won’t suffice. Wilson eventually
convinces her to go to the kitchen and he takes the money from the cash register but sets off an
alarm as everyone looks up. He puts the dollar back.
Cameron wonders why Chase is taking the news so well, and he explains that if she never
loved him then he didn’t ruin their marriage. He tries to comfort her and Cameron says that she
did love him, but not in a way that would ever have worked. When Chase asks why, she admits
that everything he said is true and she’s an emotional mess that can’t be fixed. They both admit
that they’re sorry. Chase then takes the divorce papers and signs them.
Thirteen and Wilson return to their game and Thirteen admits that she never told her father
about being bisexual or having Huntington’s. Wilson doesn’t think she should suppress her life
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for her father’s convenience, and Thirteen notes that he’s doing the same thing with House.
Wilson admits that he’s considering dating Sam Carr, his first ex-wife. Thirteen figures that he’s
not ducking her because of House, but because he’s worried about himself and things turning
serious.
Cameron and Chase discuss their marriage and she admits she’s going to miss dancing.
Chase turns on his MP3 player and they dance.
Foreman reads Taub’s file and can’t find anything wrong. When he wonders why Taub acts
like he’s ashamed, Taub notes that he’s just a fellow, working for people years younger than him
. He points out that Foreman’s life has been trending up.
Cuddy checks on Sarah, who asks if she has kids. When Cuddy says she had a daughter,
Sarah explains that she adopted Walker after she married Donald, and worries that she can never
love him the same way. When Cuddy goes to get her some tissue, Cuddy notices extra towels on
the rack. She tells Smits to see who delivered the extra towels. She then notices another nurse,
Adrienne Maldonado, who is standing shocked in the hall. Cuddy takes her arm and determines
that she’s having a pilomotor seizure. She realizes that Adrienne has been working on autopilot,
and may have inadvertently taken the baby.
Cameron notes that they never had a proper goodbye and kisses Chase on the cheek. He
kisses her back and things grow more heated for a moment. She then goes to the door and locks
it
At 9 o’clock, House hands Nash the phone and he calls Gracie. The professor gets her answering machine and he hangs up. House realizes that he waited until he knew Gracie would
be out. Nash admits that he just calls to hear her voice, and he has no right to need her when
he was never there for her. House redials the number and tells Nash to say what he has to say.
Nash tells her that he loves her and then hangs up.
Cuddy finds the baby in Adrienne’s cart and returns her to her mother.
Cameron and Chase hear that the lockdown is over and reluctantly leave.
Wilson tells Thirteen that he called to make a date with Sam. He realizes that Thirteen lied
about her father to get him to call Sam.
Taub asks if Foreman wants his file, and Foreman says he doesn’t. They agree not to tell
anyone what happened and Foreman leaves for the night. Once he’s gone, Taub shreds his file.
Nash asks House to turn off the morphine regulator and House does so. He apologizes for not
taking Nash’s case and Nash drifts off.
As Taub leaves with Thirteen, she flashes her breasts at him.
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Knight Fall
Season 6
Episode Number: 127
Season Episode: 17
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John C. Kelley
Juan J. Campanella
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Cynthia Watros (Sam Carr), Noah Segan (William), Sarah Jones (II)
(Shannon), Wesley A. Ramsey (Miles), Carey Embry (Sarah), Ryan
Radis (Apothecary), Keith Blaney (Medieval Man)
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Sir William, who dwells in a isolated community of people living in a
medieval style, is stricken ill and the team must check the village for
environmental factors. Thirteen is intrigued by the patient’s archaic
standards of honor. Meanwhile, Wilson tries to reconcile with one of
his ex-wives.
At a medieval reenactment community, modern-day people live life like centuries before. Knights gather on the jousting field as King Miles informs them that
the queen will choose their champion
from those who will battle for her honor
and a title. They must defeat the captain
of his guard, Sir Horace the Black. The
queen walks among them and asks if Sir
William will fight for her honor, and he
vows to fight to the death for her. She
chooses Sir William, and gives him advice
on Horace’s weakness while Miles looks
on suspiciously. He questions her choice but she insists, and the fight begins. Horace disarms
William and knocks him to the ground, but he returns to his feet, recovers his sword, and finally drops Horace. The captain of the guards collapses and the crowd cheers William on. As the
queen approaches her chosen knight, William staggers and clutches at his helmet, the whites of
his eyes filled with blood. Miles takes out a cell phone and calls an ambulance.
At their condo, House is taking Ibuprofen in the nude when Wilson’s ex-wife Sam Carr comes
in and says that Wilson was called off to work. She’s initially surprised but soon recovers.
At Princeton, the team is considering cases when they see House coming in with a sword. He
informs them that they’ll be taking William’s case and explains that he’s part of a troupe that
reenact the medieval era. William has been camping out at the fairground for weeks. Foreman
believes it’s a concussion, but Chase notes that the ER wouldn’t have informed House if it were
that simple. House describes the bloody eyes and sends Taub and Chase to test for concussions
while Foreman and Thirteen go to the fairground to take samples.
First, House stops off to ask Wilson about his new date. He soon realizes that Sam is Wilson’s
first wife, the ”soulless harpy” he never met. Wilson insists he has everything under control and
doesn’t want House to interfere. House says he’ll soon be back to say ”I told you so.”
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Chase and Taub test for a hematoma and discuss William’s case. He hears them and insists
that he’s not pretending. William explains that it’s a lifestyle and he and the others live by a
code of loyalty and courage, and beat each other up for fun. He complains of nausea and starts
vomiting, and they rush to get him out.
Foreman and Thirteen take environmental samples, and they can’t resist pointing out Foreman’s strange garb. Thirteen tells him to relax and play along, but Foreman would rather focus
on the potential for food contamination. King Miles and Queen Shannon come over and ask how
William is doing, and they ask to see William’s tent. Foreman notices a vomit-covered cow’s eye.
Miles explains that it’s part of an eating ritual he makes the knights perform.
Back at the hospital, House dismisses their theory of food poisoning, noting no one else
was sick. He tells them to run scratch tests for allergies and treat him with epinephrine in
the meantime. As Foreman runs the test, Shannon visits William, interrupting the preparations
for her wedding to Miles. William’s heart seizes up and they discover red blisters on his chest,
suggesting an allergy to epinephrine. Thirteen suggests staphylococcus that was spread when
Foreman treated William without gloves, and could potentially spread throughout the hospital.
House then goes to see Cuddy to talk about Wilson. Cuddy already knows about it and House
is surprised Wilson was able to keep it a secret so long. He wants to break them up before Sam
turns harpy again, warning that Wilson was a wreck afterward. House figures that she’d had
the most experience in dating losers, but Cuddy warns that if House forces Wilson to choose, he
might not like the answer.
Thirteen checks on William, who asks Shannon to go get him some pop. Once she’s gone,
William explains that he’s in love with Shannon but he doesn’t want to break up her relationship
with her fiancée, Miles. He prefers to live like a knight as far as honor.
Taub and Chase go over William’s test results and confirm it’s not MRSA. Chase admits he’s
impressed by William’s bravery. Taub disagrees, and Chase figures he thinks that way because
he never won a fight. House arrives to inform them that the blisters are caused by poison ivy, and
confirms it by revealing he got a poison ivy rash from handling William’s sword. William seizes
and Chase manages to revive him using epinephrine, overriding Taub’s objections.
The seizure eliminates MRSA as a cause and they conclude there must be some other environmental toxin. House suspects trichinosis and orders treatment and a muscle biopsy to confirm.
He then goes to see Wilson, who explains that Sam wants to know House better. Wilson reluctantly agreed because she thinks Wilson was hiding House from her. He was, but he doesn’t want
Sam to know it. House agrees and Wilson notes that House is worried about him. However, he
insists that he doesn’t want House’s help, and tells him to just come and be his usual selfish
stuff.
Shannon comes to see William again, and he says that he doesn’t want Miles to see him. He’s
fine with her seeing him, and Thirteen hastily explains that it’s a guy thing so Shannon won’t
suspect William’s feelings. Once Shannon leaves, Thirteen suggests that she’s waiting for William
to make the first move. She tells him to take what is his, but William says that Shannon isn’t
his.
Wilson and Sam wait for House to arrive. They’re surprised to see House arrive with a
transvestite prostitute, Sarah.
Thirteen and Foreman check the muscle biopsy and confirm that it’s not trichinosis. They
wonder what they missed at the fairground, and Foreman suggests it’s a fungal infection. He
figures that House is suffering from extra pain, making him extra crane, and they’ll have to go to
extra lengths to prove it’s environmental.
House is upset that Sarah is bonding with Sam and Wilson.
William has sudden shooting pains in his legs. They check and discover that the legs are
swelling with blood, indicating kidney failure. Taub suggests cancer and Foreman insists its’
not environmental. He irritably tells them to check William’s apartment, despite the fact William
hasn’t been there in weeks. Chase and Thirteen do it while Foreman and Taub check William’s
liver.
Cuddy talks to Wilson in the cafeteria and he describe what happened. When she doesn’t
react, Wilson wonders if House said something to him but she denies it. He persists and tries to
discuss his relationship, explaining that Sam is less competitive. Wilson asks Cuddy if he’s out
of his mind, but she remains non-committal, saying he might as well give it a chance. He smiles
and agrees.
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Foreman and Taub confirm that William’s liver is filled with what appear to be tumors. However, when they magnify them on the scanner, they realize that while they can’t identify what it
is, it’s not cancer.
Thirteen and Chase check out William’s apartment, which contains medieval model landscapes with miniature figures. They find a locked door and Chase tries to break it down without
much success. Thirteen gets it open when she finds the key under the mat. Inside they find a
sanctum dedicated to the black arts. They bring his books and potions back to the hospital, and
confirm the potions aren’t a poison. Taub suggests the black spots are blood lesions, but House
notices that the figures from the model are lead and proposes lead poisoning as a diagnosis. The
black spots are cysts, releasing the lead into William’s bloodstream.
Wilson and Sam return to the condo but she’d rather stay in for sex rather than make the
show. However, they hear House singing and discover that he’s cooking. He explains that he
made dinner for them and his team will handle William. Wilson figures that he’s up to something
but House insists that he’s trying to be nice. He apologizes for bringing Sarah and seems sincere.
They have dinner together and things seem to go well. Wilson needs to go the bathroom, but
worries that it might be dangerous to leave them alone. Sam and House assure him they’ll be
fine. Once he leaves, House tells Sam she’s a cold-hearted bitch that left Wilson damaged for
years, and he doesn’t plan to let her do it again. He admits he made dinner to get to know the
enemy, and they agree to dislike each other as long as Wilson isn’t around. Wilson returns and
they go back to pretending to like each other.
The next morning, House returns to his office and the team tells him there’s no sign of lead
poisoning, and William’s heart and BP are growing worse. House decides that they need to go to
the fair, in appropriate dress, so they can find whatever is causing William’s symptoms. He can’t
resist discussing Wilson’s relationship with Sam, and Thirteen figures that he’ll eventually be
fine. House warns that Wilson is actually a nice guy, i.e., a sucker, and they have to watch out
for him. House smells something from the apothecary shop and goes to investigate. The apothecary is an apprentice and doesn’t know much about what’s in the shop. House finds hemlock
and confirms that the apprentice sold it to... King Miles. House realizes that they checked the
environment, but not the people living in it.
Back at the hospital, House confronts Miles and accuses him of poisoning William. Miles
denies it at first, and then claims that he bought it for the food challenge. When he wonders
what his motive is, Thirteen points out that he has one reason. Shannon tells him to tell the
truth, but Miles insists that he didn’t do it. Tests confirm that William has hemlock poisoning,
and House tells William that Miles poisoned him. William insists that Miles didn’t perform him,
and Taub notes that the treatment isn’t working. Either William would be dead by now, or the
treatment would work. Whatever he has, it isn’t hemlock intoxication.
Lucas brings House a report on Sam. It shows that she has a typical life with nothing suspicious in her background. Lucas admits that he didn’t read her psychiatrist’s notes, even though
he stole them. Sam comes in and asks to talk to House privately. Once Lucas leaves, Sam says
that she understands why House suspects her. House isn’t impressed, but Sam says that they
need to work together to make Wilson happy. She’d like a chance to find out if she can make
a new relationship with Wilson. House doesn’t have an answer for her and she leaves. As she
leaves, House contemplates William’s sword and gets an idea.
House tells the team that the lesions are hepitus lesions, which indicate infection on his heart
that in turn indicate steroid abuse. The hemlock accelerated the steroid poisoning. They treat
William and Thirteen goes to see him. She wonders why he compromised his ideals for a fight,
but not for Shannon. William explains that the fight was a game, but his feelings were real.
Thirteen tells him that Shannon takes it seriously, and advises him to tell her how he feels.
William explains that Miles is a great guy and Shannon will have a great life with him. However,
William can’t offer her anything, and he’d rather she be happy. Thirteen notes that he’s an idiot.
Later, House considers Sam’s psychiatric files, starts to open them, and then throws them
away. He then takes more Ibuprofen for the pain.
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Open and Shut
Season 6
Episode Number: 128
Season Episode: 18
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Liz Friedman, Sara Hess
Greg Yaitanes
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), Liz Benoit (Nurse Anne), Bobbin Bergstrom
(Nurse)
Cynthia Watros (Sam Carr), Sarah Wayne Callies (Julia), Rob Evors
(Tom), Charlie Weber (Damien), Danna Brady (Maya), Erica Teeple
(Evelyn)
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The team takes on the case of a woman living in an open marriage,
who is stricken ill while dating her love. Meanwhile, House decides to
determine if Sam is the woman for Wilson.
Damien and Julia are making out in
a hotel when there’s a knock on the
door. It’s the woman’s husband, Tom. She
runs to the hotel door and Tom has the
school papers for their daughter, Evelyn.
He doesn’t seem surprised to see Damien
and introduces himself. He leaves them to
it and goes. However, once he leaves, Julia complains of stomach pains and collapses on the bed in pain as Damien goes
after Tom.
As Sam and Wilson have breakfast at
the condo, he suggests that she leave
some clothing there. House comes in and
acts politely toward her. However, once
Sam leaves, House tries to undermine Sam again and warns that it’ll go bad again. He notes
that Sam leaves the milk in the door of the refrigerator, which Wilson hates.
In differential, Thirteen tells House about Julia’s case, and tries to pique his interest by saying
she’s in an open marriage. Taub doesn’t believe that a happy open marriage exists, and Chase
would rather focus on the intestinal blockage. They speculate she got it from one of her partners,
and Foreman suggests herpes. House agrees to a barium dye test and goes to administer it
himself. He meets with Julia and Tom, who appear happy. Once Tom leave, Julia explains that
Evelyn is six and knows all about their open relationship. House is skeptical but Julia insists
that it works best for their relationship to be honest.
Taub is flirting with a nurse, Maya, when Thirteen comes by. He claims Maya is just a friend,
but Thirteen doesn’t believe it and warns that it’s dangerous. Taub insists that nothing is going
to happen. They get the x-ray, which shows no blockage, but House wants to keep testing. He
tells Taub to stay overnight to administer all the tests and find out more about the couple’s open
marriage.
At home, Wilson and Sam are doing dishes. He notices she put in a dish the wrong way,
glowers briefly, and then goes on without saying anything.
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Taub talks to Julia about her wedding, and she explains that after three years, they realized
they were miserable. Julia’s heart starts racing and Taub calls in a crash cart. Once they revive
her, Chase asks for a list of sexual partners from Tom, explaining that she probably has a
parasitical infection and either one of them could have picked up something from a partner.
However, Tom explains that he doesn’t have any other partners and he hasn’t been any further
away than Nebraska. He has an open marriage to make Julia happy. When Chase tells House,
House doesn’t believe that Tom cares about Julia’s feelings. Thirteen figures that House is trying
to find a flaw because he believes in monogamy, but House denies it. Thirteen has confirmed
that Julia has been with two men and both of them haven’t left the country. House concludes
that Tom is lying about going to Nebraska.
As Chase and Thirteen go to check out the couple’s apartment, they discuss the open marriage
and Thirteen explains that her father was having an affair even while he tended to his dying wife
for two years. Chase finds receipts confirming Tom was in Nebraska, but Thirteen finds an
imported luffa.
That night, Taub has dinner with his wife Rachel and explains what they found. When he
brings up the couple’s open marriage, she points out he doesn’t usually talk about his patients,
and asks if he wants an open marriage. Taub denies it but she doesn’t believe him and figure
there’s someone else. Finally he explains that there is a woman at the hospital that he finds
attractive, but insists nothing will ever happen. Rachel says that being married to him is enough
for her, and wonders if he feels the same. Taub insists he feels the same, but then receives a call
that Julia’s legs are paralyzed. Rachel wants him to stay and talk, but he goes to deal with it
instead.
Tests show nothing that caused the paralysis, or any evidence of a parasitical infection. House
notices that Taub scratched himself with a lousy razor that he got at work because he stayed
there instead of going home. Taub admits that he proposed open marriage to Rachel, and because
House pushed him to do it. House figures he was doing him a favor, whether it turned out good or
bad. Chase and Foreman focus on the case and suggest that increased libido between the couple
suggests adrenocortical carcinoma. House orders a MRI of Julia’s adrenal glands to confirm the
theory.
At home, Sam continues to irritate Wilson with little things like throwing bananas in the
garbage. She points out that she hates bananas and Wilson realizes that it must be House.
However, when he talks about the milk, she isn’t convinced that it’s all House. Wilson tries to
drop it, but she asks if he had a list of annoyances when they were married.
Tom brings Evelyn to see Julia. They’re interrupted when Damien comes in, and Tom tells
him it isn’t a good time. Julia asks Thirteen to get Evelyn out, and Tom then orders Damien out.
Evelyn agrees and Damien takes offense. He leaves, disappointed.
Wilson starts going over the list of his annoyance and he and Sam are soon fighting.
As they test Julia, Thirteen discusses Taub’s apparent genetic predisposition toward cheating,
and suggests that his problem is denying it. Taub insists he’s going to keep trying with Rachel.
Thirteen notices something on Julia’s lung.
Wilson and Sam continue to argue, and Sam accuses him of lack of emotions. He finally calls
her a selfish bitch.
Thirteen tells House that they found a clot, but now they wonder what kind of clotting disorder
it is. Cuddy arrives and tells House that Julia and Tom don’t have insurance because it lapsed
due to non-payment. House goes to see Julia and Tom, and Tom admits that they’re behind on
the premiums and he’s been using his retirement account to cover the expenses. Julia didn’t
now about it, and Tom admits that he lost all of their savings.
Thirteen gives heparin for the clotting, but House wants to figure out how the new information
accounts for the symptoms. Wilson comes in and tells House that Sam has broken off their
relationship. House denies that he feels responsible, and says that he just wanted Wilson to
stand up for himself. Wilson would be happy with Sam, and leaves when House asks him out to
dinner.
As Thirteen tests Julia for clotting disorders, Julia says that she sent Tom home because
he lied to her. She talks about how she inadvertently ended up with another woman’s husband
without knowing he was married. She felt superior because she knew her marriage wasn’t like
that.
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Taub comes home and Rachel tells him that when he had his affair, it wasn’t the sex. It was
his lying about it. Rachel then tells him that he can have his affair as long as he keeps it to one
night a week and he’s home by midnight. Taub insists that he wants her, but Rachel notes that
he wants more than her. She loves him and believes that he loves her, but he needs the thrill, so
she’s willing to accept him as he is.
All of the tests for clotting disorder come back negative. House sniffs at Taub, notices his
cologne, and realizes that Rachel gave him permission to sleep with another woman. Thirteen
and Foreman are shocked, House is intrigued, and Chase doesn’t care. They’re interrupted when
they get a page: Julia is having stomach pains. The exam and ultrasounds show nothing, and
the team wonders what caused a resurgence of the pains. Taub suggests that something caused
the pain to stop during the x-ray. . . and the barium enema House gave her beforehand. They
realize that her bowel has turned in on itself, cutting off blood flow, and they have to fix it before
it turns necrotic. It indicates cancer, and they’ll search her abdomen for tumors.
Cuddy comes into her House and discovers that he’s in there and has bought her an espresso
machine. House explains that he did something nice and karma works, so he’s being nice to
Cuddy in the hopes of either oral sex or Lucas dying.
As they operate on Julia, Chase suggests that Rachel might be going out to see someone.
Taub doesn’t believe it but insists he can handle it if she does. Afterward, they report to House
that they discovered non-specific inflammation suggesting IBD, but doesn’t account for her heart
or kidney problems. House deduces that the IBD triggered ankylosing spondylitis, accounting for
the heart and kidneys, and orders treatment. As House leaves, Taub gets a call from Rachel . He
goes down to the parking garage to meet her, and she says that she can’t do it. Taub admits that
he’s been an idiot and he doesn’t need anyone else. They hug, assure each other that they love
each other, and go home.
The next day, the team confirms that IBD treatment isn’t working. They now have too many
ideas. House notices that Taub doesn’t have afterglow, and he explains that he chickened out
because he couldn’t hurt Rachel. They narrow it down to three possibilities and begin treating
her. As they do, Thirteen suggests that Julia call Tom. However, all Julia can think about with
Tom is that he’s a liar. Thirteen finally tells Julia that he’s been protecting her by not sleeping
with anyone else. Julia thinks her marriage has been a sham, but Thirteen notes that Tom lied
to keep her happy.
Sam comes to see Wilson at his office. They both apologize, but Sam admits that Wilson was
right and she was selfish back then. Now she’s trying to change, and she figures that Wilson has
changed as well. Sam admits that she wishes they ’d had the fight ten years ago, and they both
agree not to give House the credit.
None of the treatments work and Julia’s kidneys continue to fail. Julia has allowed Tom to
get back, and House notices that he brought lilacs. He remembers that lilacs attract bees, and
HSP can rarely be caused by a bee sting. HSP also has a rash, but they didn’t find a rash. House
confirms that Julia was stung by a bee a month ago. House explains that she has HenochSchonlien Purpura, which causes lesions throughout the body and a rash on the skin. House
checks her mouth and finds lesions inside, allowing them to successfully treat. Julia tells Tom
that he loves her, but House notes that they’ve still got problems with Tom bankrupting them
and Julia wanting to sleep with other men.
House comes home and finds them happily playing poker together. He quietly puts the milk
back in the door and leaves.
As Tub leaves for the night, he sees Maya going. He apologizes for canceling their date and
she admits that she’s sorry he did. They hesitate for a moment and then kiss. She asks if they
he wants to go somewhere and he leaves with her.
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The Choice
Season 6
Episode Number: 129
Season Episode: 19
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Monday May 3, 2010
David Hoselton
Juan J. Campanella
Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Jennifer Crystal Foley (Rachel Taub), Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Cynthia Watros (Sam Carr), Adam Garcia (Theodore), Eva Amurri
(Nicole), Jonathan Murphy (Cotter), Patrick Price (Nurse Jeffrey Sparkman), F. William Parker (Reverend Bowden), Gregory Franklin (Henry),
Eugene Long (Cop #1), Tyler Scott Gilmour (Esteban)
HOU-620
The team tries to diagnose a woman’s fiancée, and she’s surprised to
learn the secrets that he’s been keeping from her. Meanwhile, House
decides to spend some musical free time with Chase and Foreman.
A bride-to-be, Nicole, is waiting outside the chapel as her father arrives to
escort her in. She assures him that the
groom, Ted, is the second greatest man
she knows. They go in and the wedding
begins. The reverend asks if Ted takes
Nicole as his wife, but he freezes up and
then collapses.
Wilson wakes up in bed next to Sam.
As he starts to make love to her, she
warns that House is in the next room. Wilson insists that he’s sound asleep. House wakes up
only to discover that he’s in a neighbor boy’s room. The police take him back to the condo. When
House arrives at work, he tells Cuddy what happened and admit that he was drunk. She says
she needs him in clinic, but fortunately for him, Chase arrives with a case. House goes to see
Ted, who is suffering from aphasia. They’ve ruled out all the common causes, and House realizes
that he’s faking. He proves it by poking him with a syringe, but Ted claims that his voice just
came back. Nicole wonders why Ted would fake anything, but House insists he is. As they leave,
Taub insists that Ted wasn’t faking, and House focuses on the fact that Taub refused to engage
in an open wedding. Taub invites House to dinner, but House refuses until Taub brings Rachel
along.
Outside, Ted tells Nicole that they should finish the wedding. She agrees but Ted stars coughing and collapses. They call House back in and tell him Ted has a plural effusion. They rule
out infection and parasites, and House suggests Ted is on a medication he’s not telling anyone
about. He orders a battery of tests of Ted and his former apartment. Thirteen and Taub break
in and start searching. She asks Taub what he told Maya, and figure he’s lying when he says
he called off the affair. Before she can pursue the matter, Thirteen notices a suspended ceiling
with asbestos and figure that’s responsible. The owner, Cotter, comes in, and they explain what
happened. Cotter informs them that Ted was his boyfriend for three years.
The team confronts Ted, who insists that he’s straight. When Cotter got a crush on him, he
left. they’ve turned up mono and House explains that if there’s unprotected sex, they’ll have to
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test for HIV. Ted insists he didn’t have sex with Cotter, but when House threatens to go to Nicole,
Ted admits that he experimented but that’s behind him. He invites them to test him as long as
they don’t tell Nicole.
As the team runs the tests, they argue the merits of Ted hiding his sexual experimentation.
Thirteen feels that Ted should be honest and Nicole should know the truth. Taub figures she’s
talking about him and his lack of honesty. The tests show that Ted doesn’t have HIV, and Thirteen
suggests that perhaps being straight did make him ill. She goes to ask Ted how he turned his life
around, and gets him to admit that he had conversion therapy at a camp for rehabilitation. They
injected him with emetics, male hormones, and ECT. House orders an EEG to see if they caused
any neural damage.
Taub meets with House for dinner, but claims that Rachel can’t make it because she has a
pottery class. House has already texted Rachel to invite her, pretending to be Taub, and figures
that Taub is cheating. Taub admits that he is, but begs House not to tell his wife. House agrees
and leaves, but can’t resist trying to suggest she get together with Taub on the night he’s having
his affair and claiming it’s a pottery class.
Nicole comes to see Ted and Thirteen explains that they’re testing for neurological damage.
She lies and claims Ted had head trauma, but tells Nicole to ask Ted for the details. They go in
as Ted has a heart attack.
In differential, the team tries to figure out what would have caused the heart attack. House
can’t resist mentioning Taub having an affair. He explains that he managed to find a class that
is full so that Rachel can’t come, and all he has to do now is find some pottery to pass off as his
own. As Thirteen goes, she invites House to join her at a lesbian bar. House realizes something is
up and goes to see Wilson, who explains that he’s setting House up with company since Wilson
has been busy with Sam. House accuses him of doing it out of self-interest, and agrees to do it
for Wilson. However, he warns that it won’t work.
Nicole talks to Ted when he recovers consciousness and asks him about his head trauma.
He lies and says he fell off a stepladder. She clearly isn’t convinced. Thirteen and Taub arrive to
give him valium for a test, but when he tries to get up, he collapses. Ted recovers consciousness,
but when he gets up again, he collapses. House figures that it’s POTS (Postural Orthostatic
Tachycardia Syndrome), a blood pressure ailment. House orders treatment, and then reminds
Taub what kind of pottery he’ll have to make for the class.
Cotter comes to see Ted and talks to Nicole. When she wonders why he wasn’t at the wedding,
Cotter explains that he and Ted had a falling out and he wasn’t invited. Nicole wonders how he
knows Ted and Cotter explains that they were roommates for three years. He then starts crying
over the unconscious Ted and admits that he misses him. Nicole orders him out and Cotter
reluctantly goes.
When Ted wakes up, Nicole tells him about Cotter and demands to know who he is. Ted lies
again but Nicole demands the truth from him. He admits that he got drunk one night and ended
up having sex with Cotter, but he insists that he’s not gay any more and the head trauma was
caused by the anti-homosexual treatments. Ted says that it’s in the past and doesn’t matter any
more, and then complains of head pains.
Taub reports the new symptom to House and concludes that it may be a cerebral infection.
House wonders if Taub is distracted by his affair and taking proper precautions, and Taub leaves
in disgust when House orders him to do a spinal tap to check for infection.
Thirteen takes House to the lesbian bar and they discuss her ability to detect homosexuals.
She’s disgusted with Ted, who is denying his sexuality, but doesn’t think it bears any resemblance to Taub’s case. Taub calls to report that the infection is negative, meaning it’s not POTS.
As House watches Thirteen drink, he gets an idea and suggests that he’s losing CSF from the
spinal tap they performed. The low pressure in his brain caused the POTS. They can seal the
leak and give him artificial CSF to help him. As House hangs up, he watches as a woman sends
a drink over to Thirteen.
As Chase and Taub repair the leak, Nicole says that she talked to her parents and Ted tells
her to tell them that everything will be okay. He then suffers paralysis but the doctors confirm
that it’s not a stroke. They meet House in the cafeteria and tell him what happened, and that it
eliminates POTS. As they discuss the case, House reveals that he’s been bidding against Taub
online to get the napkin rings for the pottery class. They figure the best way to get the truth is to
get Cotter in and talk to all of them at the same time. As they go, Chase tells House that he and
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Foreman are taking House out tonight, and it’s too late to back out because Wilson has already
paid them.
Thirteen and Taub question Nicole, Ted, and Cotter about Ted’s medical history. Cotter notes
that one time, Ted passed out after a single drink. Nicole admits there have been some issues
with erectile dysfunction, and Cotter notes that he never had that problem. Taub suggests that
it’s vascular, which could account for all the symptoms. Thirteen and Taub use a test to measure
circulatory problems in the penis, and ask what kind of sexual simulation he needs. He’d rather
take a shot for stimulation then choose.
Chase and Foreman take House to a karaoke bar and they perform Midnight Train to Georgia.
House actually seems to enjoy himself and they offer a toast to Wilson.
The tests prove negative for a vascular condition, but Taub and Thirteen discover that Ted
is lactating. Back in differential, Chase suggests that the male hormones the camp gave Ted
screwed up his thyroid, while Taub and Thirteen suggest a benign tumor of the pituitary. House,
drinking coffee, seems curiously sedate and orders them to MRI the pituitary. Wilson comes to
see House and asks if he had fun. House initially denies it, and then admits that he wondered
if they could be his friends. He tries to blame the booze, but Wilson doesn’t buy it. When House
talks about the difference between what you can change and what you were born with, he gets
an idea.
House goes to see Ted as Taub confirms the pituitary is normal. He adjusts Ted’s neck,
relieving the pain, and explains he has a chiari malformation, a narrowing at the base of the skull
that blocks CSF flow. The ECT caused his brain to swell, increasing the blockage and putting
pressure on the pituitary. The POTS treatments they gave him made him worse. They can use
surgery to repair the malformation and cure him, and House points out that it’s congenital and
Ted was born that way.
After the surgery, Cotter comes to see Ted. Ted tells him that he’s not coming back, and Cotter
tells him that he’s hurting Nicole. Ted insists that he loves Nicole and orders him out. He goes
out past Nicole as she arrives. Ted suggests they rebook the marriage on her birthday in three
weeks, but Nicole isn’t so sure. He insists that nothing has changed and he still loves her, and
Nicole says she loves him. However, she thinks Ted still loves Cotter. He insists that he believes
everyone has to make their own choices, and he made his. Nicole makes her choice, kisses him,
and leaves.
As Nicole leaves, Taub watches her go. House comes over and Taub tells him that he called
off the affair. He thanks House for trying to save his marriage and gives him the pottery napkin
rings. Cuddy comes to see House in his office and suggests they grab dinner. House figures that
Wilson paid her as well, but Cuddy insists that it’s just her. He passes, even after Cuddy offers
to buy, and she tells him that she just wants to be friends. House tells her that’s the last thing
he wants them to be. They look at each other for a moment and then Cuddy goes, while House
rubs his leg and considers the bottle of Ibuprofen. He then takes out a hidden bottle of alcohol
and starts drinking.
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Baggage
Season 6
Episode Number: 130
Season Episode: 20
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Monday May 10, 2010
Doris Egan, David Foster (II)
David Straiton
Bergstrom (Nurse)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Juan ”Alvie” Alvarez), Cynthia Watros (Sam
Carr), Zoe McLellan (Sidney), David Monahan (Jay), Carl Gilliard
(Dutch), Paul Keeley (Harris), Andre Braugher (Nolan), Annette Lesure
(Durdanna), Gil Glasgow (Court Officer), Tina Huang (Public Defender), Ric Maddox (Officer Durkee), Angelyna Martinez (Nurse Jody)
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House tells Dr. Nolan about the case of a woman who had amnesia
and a disease, and how he had to help solve both mysteries.
House arrives later for a therapy session with Dr. Nolan. He explains that his
leg has been hurting and Nolan wonders if it’s due to stress. He asks House
if he likes the painting in his waiting
room, and he’s feeling greater stress that
is causing pain and absent- mindedness.
House initially insists that it’s been an ordinary week for him, but Nolan realizes
there’s something going on and probes for
answers.
House arrives arrived at the Princeton ER and Cuddy told him that an amnesiac jogger showed
up, and she continues suffering bouts of amnesia. House realizes the woman has money and that
she’s hungry because her metabolism is in high gear since she’s a long-distance runner.
Nolan wonders why House was in the ER, and House admits that he was trying to avoid
Wilson.
Wilson tells House that Sam is moving in, and he wants House to move out. House notes that
Wilson is acting too quickly, and Wilson suggests that he help House find someplace to live other
then his former apartment, where he abused drugs and hallucinated. House insists that he’s
fine.
House insists that he’s fine, but Nolan points out that his best friend just threw him out.
When House insists that he’s fine, Nolan points out that he arrived late and took the case despite
the fact it isn’t his style because the memory loss is probably psychological.
House reviews the case with the team and Chase suggests they search her house for indications that she got an infection from environmental factors. They have to find her home first, and
House suggests they track the serial number on her heart monitor. He then decides to take Mrs.
X there to stimulate her memory.
Nolan figures that House wanted to go with the patient so he could avoid going home. House
tells him that he had already gone to his home after leaving Wilson’s.
House goes to his old apartment and discovers that his former roommate, Alvie, has snuck
in to avoid Immigration. He’s taken over the place, organizing House’s stuff, making dinner, and
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painting the walls. When House realizes that his furniture has disappeared, Alvie explains that
he sold his furniture to pay for the paint. House orders him out.
Nolan wonders if House was taking his frustrations out on Alvie, but then stayed with Alvie.
He figures that House used Alvie as a distraction, and wants to know what House was distracting
himself from.
House and Alvie take Mrs. X to the town and try to trigger her memories. She worries that she
may never regain her memories, while Alvie talks about how he’s going to be deported because
he can’t prove his citizenship. He was ordered to a special hearing, but avoided it because he
couldn’t prove his Puerto Rican mother was his mother. Alvie spots a doughnut store and House
gets an idea. He takes Mrs. X to the shop, figuring she stopped there when she was jogging. The
cashier says that the woman’s husband left a card, and they track the address to a man, Jay.
He greets Mrs. X as Sidney and wonders where she’s been.
Jay explains that the police wouldn’t list Sidney as a missing person yet, and says that he
was calling hospitals on his own. He had dismissed Princeton-Plainsboro because it was too far
away, and Sidney asks what she does. Jay explains that she runs because of the stress of her
job as a lawyer, but she insists that it doesn’t sound like her.
House admits that it was odd that Sidney was more comfortable with him then Jay, and Nolan
wonders if he liked the artificial intimacy.
Sidney can’t believe that she’s been married to Jay for four years, and is thrilled to see that she
used to surf. Jay explains that she was working a case of methane contamination in substandard
housing. As they get her outside, she collapses and complains of numbness of the feet and
urinary problems. House concludes she’s having complex partial seizures.
Nolan wonders if House is diagnosing based on his personal issues. House insists his past
has nothing to do with it, and that he was trying to recover his past.
House and Alvie go to the pawnshop where Alvie pawned House’s belongings. House realizes
that one book,Approach to the Acute Abdomen, has been sold. He buys back the rest of his stuff
from the shop owner at five times the value.
Nolan wonders why House was so desperate to get his stuff back. House slips and says he
doesn’t like Wilson moving his stuff, and then snaps out that it isn’t about Wilson. Nolan just
chuckles and continues.
House and Alvie are playing indoor football when Wilson shows up, and then they skip to
afterward.
Nolan wonders why House isn’t telling him what Wilson says, but House insists that Wilson
just came by to check on him and it was very boring.
Alvie drops the cross that belonged to his mother. House tells Alvie that he set up an immigration hearing, but Alvie refused to participate.
Nolan notes that House cared enough to schedule a hearing, but House insists that he only
cared for a few seconds and then got distracted.
Taub calls House and tells him that they’ve kept Sidney up for twelve hours but haven’t
introduced stress seizures. House suggests strobe lights. Meanwhile, Sidney is wondering why
she and Jay never did anything relaxing.
House explains that Sidney became serious and went into law when her brother died in a
car accident. Nolan suggests that once the thing that caused Sidney’s change disappeared, the
change itself disappeared. House figures that Sidney is at an earlier stage of her development,
and is seeing her future self. Nolan suggests that Jay and Sidney aren’t in sync, because Sidney
resents Jay’s attempts at intimacy.
Sidney has breathing problems and they run a MRI scan to check her brain.
Nolan wonders what House’s diagnosis has to do with his condition. House insists that it’s
important, but Nolan figures he’s avoiding his past and wants him to talk about himself, not
the case. House insists the case means nothing, but Nolan doesn’t believe it. He says there’s no
reason to listen to it and starts reading. As House gets up, Nolan notices a bruise on his arm. He
asks if House remembers falling, and House admits that he was drunk. Nolan notes that it looks
like a boot, and House admits that he said something that someone objected to, and someone
kicked him when he was down. His psychiatrist notes that he got drunk enough to get into a
bar fight, and wonders if House did it deliberately. He figures that House deliberately sought
out someone to beat on him, and that his patient is punishing himself. Nolan asks what House
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screwed up. House has no idea, and admits he might have a problem. Nolan returns to the topic
of Wilson.
House recruits Wilson to get the address of the book’s buyer from the pawnshop owner. As
they go, Wilson suggests that maybe he was hasty, and that he should keep House at the condo
to be under observation. House blames him for being wishy-washy.
Nolan wonders why House was so hard on Wilson for being conciliatory, and House figures
that Cuddy put his friend up to it. Nolan suggests that it might have been Sam who convinced
him to let House stay, but House convinces him otherwise. Then he figures that Cuddy put
Wilson up to it, and she kept checking on him because she supposedly wanted to keep Sidney,
a high-priced lawyer, happy. House figures that Cuddy complained to Wilson about him kicking
House out, and that neither one of them trusted him.
Nolan suggests an alternate theory, where Wilson thought he needed to protect House, and
Cuddy figured he was being overprotective. House objects and invokes Taub coming in to interrupt Nolan’s imaginary scenario. Nolan insists that his speculation is just as good as House’s,
and that Wilson had faith that House could survive being on his own. The psychiatrist then asks
why House and Wilson are friends, and if House thinks Wilson is the best he can do. House
rushes to Wilson’s defense and Nolan points out the contradiction, and asks what he thinks of
Wilson. House admits that he can say what he wants around Wilson and he won’t leave, but
Nolan notes that Wilson is leaving, at least temporarily. House figures that Wilson will eventually get divorced and invite him back to the condo. Nolan backs off and suggests that it’s about
something other than Wilson. He asks what else House would want to punish himself about, but
House still doesn’t know. Nolan asks if House has gotten anyone else angry with him.
Sidney agrees to House’s surgery suggestion, but Jay refuses. House warns him that prion
infection will destroy her brain if they don’t operate, but Jay insists on speaking for the wife that
he knew for four years. House checks the heart scan and realizes that the infection has spread
to the brain stem, and surgery is no longer an option. House puts her on chemo therapy to give
her a couple of weeks so she can hopefully recover her memories back before she dies.
Nolan notes that he was being harsh, and House admits that Jay was being an idiot. He feels
that Jay wanted to let his wife die rather than lose her memories. Nolan asks who else he made
mad.
House negotiates with the man who bought the book, a rare surgical text, but the man refuses
to sell it. He’s distracting the man so that Alvie can break in and steal the book when he’s not
looking. Back at the hospital, Taub explains that whatever Sidney has is attacking not just her
brain but her whole body. Two Immigration agents arrive to deport Alvie, who realizes that House
called them when he missed his hearing.
House goes to the hearing while the team keeps him updated via cell phone on Sidney’s
deteriorating condition. While he concludes that Sidney has TB and proscribes treatment of IV
antibiotics and UV radiation exposure, Alvie swears that he hates House. The bailiff finally tells
House to put the cell phone away, but he first warns the team that they may all be exposed to
TB. Alvie’s case begins and House introduces himself as Alvie’s doctor. He provides DNA evidence
taken from Alvie’s cross proves his parentage, confirming who his mother was. As they leave,
Alvie realizes that House lied.
As House returns to the hospital, the team takes Sidney to surgery as she crashes. House
notices a tattoo on her ankle, a surfing name, revealed by the UV lighting. She tried to have it
removed, but they only took off the top layer, leaving the ink imbedded. When she went running,
it triggered an allergic reaction when her immune system changed. A full-skin graft removed the
ink and cured her.
Nolan points out that Sidney’s past caused her illness, just like House thought. However, she
didn’t recover her memory.
Jay ends up treating Sidney as if they just met, courting him for the first time.
Nolan wonders why Jay changed his approach, and realizes that House gave him the advice.
Because of that, House is thinking about relationships and how he lost Wilson but gained Alvie.
House says not quite.
House returns to his apartment and finds a note from Alvie. It says that Alvie was grateful
but he’s moving to Arizona to avoid Immigration.
House admits he didn’t think Alvie was going to stay forever, and Nolan asks what happened
next.
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House starts drinking and then leaves for the bar to get into a fight.
That’s the last thing House remembers. Nolan figures he picked a fight because of something
about relationships, and notes that Sam and Wilson have a relationship. House admits that
everyone is happy, and everyone is moving in together, even Cuddy and Lucas. Nolan notes that
House hasn’t mentioned Cuddy and Lucas before, and realizes that the book House was buying
belonged to Cuddy’s great- grandfather. He wanted to get it for Cuddy and Lucas’ housewarming,
but Nolan figures it’s significant that he didn’t mention it. Jay was losing the woman he loved,
just like House was. House insists they’re not related and tells Nolan that he originally said he
wanted to be happy. For the last year he’s done everything Nolan has asked, and everyone is
happy except for him. He accuses Nolan of taking advantage of people who want to believe, and
says that whatever the answer is, the psychiatrist doesn’t have it.
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Help Me
Season 6
Episode Number: 131
Season Episode: 21
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Monday May 17, 2010
Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Peter Blake (IV)
Greg Yaitanes
Bergstrom (Nurse)
China Jesusita Shavers (Hanna), Doug Kruse (Dolce), Jamie McShane
(Captain McCreavey), DeSean Terry (Charles), Angel Oquendo (EMT
Coumont), Kimberly Bailey (Dolce’s Wife), Jason Paul Field (Rescue
Worker #1), Teddy Chen Culver (Rescue Worker #2), Matthew Brent
(Dislocated Shoulder), Caroline Pho (Head Wound), Marty Hrejsa (Purple Toes)
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The team is called upon to aid a search-and-rescue operation during an emergency. House ends up staying to help a woman trapped
beneath the rubble who has to choose whether she will sacrifice her
imprisoned leg if she wants to live.
An injured House sits on his bathroom
floor and stares at a hole in the wall.
Eight hours earlier
House goes to see Cuddy, who tells
him a crane collapsed in downtown Trenton. He isn’t interested and gives her
her great- grandfather’s book as a housewarming gift. When he wonders if there’s
something wrong between her and Lucas,
she ignores the question and leaves for
the accident site. House goes along and begins helping. He and Cuddy begin triaging and House
determines that one victim won’t survive
They find the crane operator, who claims that he passed out while working. When House
learns that he was using caffeine pills and drinking coffee, he concludes that the operator has a
neurological problem. He prepares to take the man back for diagnosis but cuddy tells House to let
his team deal with it while he tends to the injured. House agrees, and then calls Wilson, in the ER,
to share his suspicions that Cuddy and Lucas are having problem. Wilson dismisses his concerns
and goes back to work, and House hears someone pounding on metal. He follows the noise and
calls the emergency workers over, but they get any response and conclude House was mistaken.
Once the leave, House knocks on a nearby metal pipe, considers, and then starts crawling into
the wreckage, calling for the person to respond. When he gets no answer, he continues and finds
an injured woman, begging for help.
As House tends to the woman, she talks about how she picked up a picture for her husband.
She finally identifies herself as Hanna and House checks her for memory impairment. Once
he’s satisfied, he tries to move her but discovers that her leg is pinned. He has no choice but
to go, although Hanna begs him to stay. Once outside, House calls the team in ER and starts
the differential of the operator. As they discuss the issue, House wonders where Thirteen is,
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and Foreman admits he doesn’t know. The EMT then reports to House that Hanna is okay but
bleeding. When he realizes the EMT doesn’t know how to administer an IV through the tibia,
House goes down with them.
The emergency workers try to free Hanna but warn that the structural beam pinning her can’t
be broken. As they go to get other tools, Hanna tries to get closer to House, but he insists that
he won’t be there long. She insists she has to call her husband but House says he can’t and
leaves again. Outside, House talks to Cuddy and asks if things are going badly with Lucas. She
insists that everything is going fine and explains that she thought it was an engagement present.
They got engaged the previous night, but House notes she’s not wearing an engagement ring.
Cuddy says she left it in her desk because she knew she was coming to the accident site. They’re
interrupted when an emergency worker comes over.
Taub and Chase run an MRI on the crane operator, Dolce. They don’t find anything, but
discover that he’s bleeding from the eye and nose.
House and Cuddy go back down, and the captain in charge, McCreavey, warns that they can’t
get her free and will have to amputate. Cuddy warns that the more she’s pinned, the better the
chances she’ll get cramp syndrome, and the poison released will kill her. House insists that she
has at least two hours and refuses to agree to her leg amputation, but McCreavey warns that
they’re risking further collapses. Cuddy reluctantly agrees with House to delay for two hours.
Once they’re alone, Hanna thanks House and gets him to promise not to cut off the leg.
The team calls House to tell him that Dolce is bleeding, and House insists it proves there was
something wrong. Thirteen arrives and claims she was in physical therapy and left her phone in
her locker. House snaps angrily at them to check again and leaves, telling Hanna that he’s the
only one who can help Dolce. Outside, House prepares to leave but Cuddy tells him that Hanna
is panicking and wants him. He agrees to stay.
Now
In his bathroom, House considers his valium.
Earlier
House returns to Hanna, who apologizes for needing him but is happy to have him there. He
gives her his phone so she can call her husband Charlie. He already knows what’s happening
and she apologizes for not being there on his birthday. House notes that she’s getting upset and
her BP is rising, endangering her leg, and she hangs up. He blames himself for doing something
stupid, but Hanna insists it was nice. She asks about his leg and House sarcastically dismisses
her comment, and she wonders why he wasn’t nicer. Hanna then asks him to pray with her, and
House refuses. When she admits she doesn’t believe in God, just like him, he agrees. Hanna then
wonders how bad things can happen to fundamentally good people, and House admits he knows
how she feels.
As Thirteen and Taub test Dolce, Taub notes that she lied to House about the therapy. She
refuses to explain but insists that she’s fine.
As McCreavey tries to free Hanna, Hanna wonders if she and House can be friends afterward.
He dismisses her suggestion and they manage to get the beam up. However, as they pull her out,
the basement collapses around them.
When House and McCreavey recover, they discover that one of Hanna’s lungs has collapsed
and House works to reinflate it. House is bleeding and McCreavey advises him to get up top for
medical treatment. Cuddy treats his wound while the team calls to tell him that Dolce’s fever is
spiking. McCreavey informs House that due to the extra debris from the collapse, they can’t use
the air bags to lift the beam for at least five or six hours. He tries to come up with a way to prevent
the potassium buildup caused by crush syndrome, but Cuddy points out that it’s hopeless. When
House persists, Cuddy accuses him of taking out his anger on her over the engagement. House
denies it and insults her, and she asks him what he has in his life. She and Wilson are moving
on, but he’s got nothing. Cuddy informs him that she’s going down to convince Hanna to consent
to the amputation.
Hanna refuses to allow the amputation, insisting that House promised and she can wait.
House comes down and tells her that they have to amputate because they’ve run out of time.
He explains what happened to his leg and that he refused to let the doctors amputate. When
she points out he saved his leg, House says that he wishes they hadn’t and that because of the
constant pain, he’s a worse person and alone. He tells her that Hanna doesn’t want to be like
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him, and she can still have friends and family. Hanna thinks it over and then agrees. House tells
Cuddy that he’ll handle the amputation and sends her out.
House describes the procedure to Hanna and then cuts off her leg. The EMTs get her out and
her husband is waiting for her. He assures her that he loves her no matter what and leaves with
her for the hospital. House gets in the ambulance, looks back briefly at Cuddy, and then leaves
with Hanna. En route, the team calls House and tells him that Dolce was being questioned by an
officer and went into a coma. House realizes that the stress caused Dolce’s BP to spike, as did
the caffeine earlier. Dolce has an arachnoid cyst on his lower spine.
Hanna suddenly starts gasping for breath and House realizes that he waited too long. She has
a clot in her lungs and he administers a blood thinner. It doesn’t work and House realizes that
it’s a fat embolism from the amputation. He informs Charlie that there’s nothing they can do.
The ambulance arrives at the hospital and Foreman arrives just as Hanna flatlines. Later,
Foreman tries to comfort House, noting there was nothing he could have done and it would have
happened no matter what. House walks away and then yells at Foreman, saying that he knows
there’s nothing he could have done but it doesn’t make him feel any better. As House leaves,
Foreman tells him that he shouldn’t be alone but House orders him out of the way.
Thirteen leaves an envelope on House’s desk. As she goes, Taub comes in and asks what she’s
doing. She tells him that she’s asking for some time off and says that she’s not okay.
Now
House goes home and checks his injury, which is still bleeding. He then yanks the mirror
of the wall and smashes it, revealing a hidden stash of Vicodin in the wall. He sits on the floor
and considers the bottles and pours some pills into his hand. Cuddy comes in and says that it’s
his choice to go back on drugs. She informs him that she broke off her engagement with Lucas.
Cuddy tells House that she can’t move on and all she can think about is him. She asks him if
she and he can work. House wonders if he can fix himself, and Cuddy admits he doesn’t know.
He warns her that he’s the most screwed-up person in the world, and Cuddy admits that she
knows but she loves him anyway. With her help, House gets back up and kisses her. He wonders
if he’s hallucinating, and Cuddy points out that he didn’t take the Vicodin. She figures they’re
okay, and House agrees, throwing the pills away.
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Season Seven
Now What?
Season 7
Episode Number: 132
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired:
Writer:
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Summary:
Doris Egan
Greg Yaitanes
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Jesse
Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase)
George Wyner (Richardson), Chris Connor (Alex), Matt Salinger
(Malkin), Jay Tapaoan (Zander), Janet Golden (Candy Striper (uncredited)), David Gueriera (Scalper #1 (uncredited))
HOU-701
Now that they’re together, House and Cuddy try to establish a normal
relationship. Meanwhile, the team comes to the aid of an ailing Princeton neurosurgeon but discover that they need House’s help. . . and
House is nowhere to be found.
After House and Cuddy kiss, Cuddy checks on
House’s injury and removes his shirt to clean the
wound. She then removes his pants and strokes his leg.
When he asks her not to, she says she loves him and
kisses the old injury. House then undresses Cuddy as
they kiss, and then carries her to the bed.
The next morning, they wake up and House wonders
what happens next. Cuddy prepares to go to work, and
assures him that this is just the beginning. Cuddy’s assistant Alex calls and House takes the calls. When the
assistant says that Dr. Richardson threw up in the OR,
House tells him to deal with it on his own.
Foreman, Taub, Chase, and Thirteen meet and wonder where House is. Chase notes that he read Thirteen’s
resignation letter to House, and then Foreman found it
as well and tore it up. They want to know why she’s
resigning. She refuses.
House and Chase are cleaning up the broken mirror from the previous night, and Cuddy notices House’s
bottle of Vicodin. The phone rings and House suggests
that they ignore it. Cuddy agrees, but House soon realizes that she can’t just ignore it. She admits that they’re
having numerous problems, and Richardson the neurosurgeon has claimed he’s a prisoner. Cuddy explains
that he is the only neurosurgeon they have, and that he can’t leave without the hospital losing
its Level 1 Trauma Center status. House offers to make her a bath and ushers her out of the
bathroom. Once he’s alone, he runs the water and then calls Chase to ask why they don’t have
more neurosurgeons. He then tells Chaser he’s the new neurosurgeon, or to at least pretend so
they can keep the ER open. Chase wonders where House is, and House ignores his question and
hangs up.
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Foreman finds Thirteen’s tickets to Rome and asks her why she’s leaving. He figures she’s
going there because they’re having trials for Huntington’s treatment, but Thirteen resents him
going through her correspondence and angrily walks out.
As they take a bath together, House suggests that she’s overreacting because of the recent
emergency, and points out that she dumped her fiancé. Cuddy tells him not to overanalyze it and
House agrees. They soon realize House hasn’t done the secret bath correctly.
Chase and Foreman discover that Alex is trying to reach her without success. When Chase
claims he’s a neurosurgeon Alex knows better because Cuddy has told him not to believe anything House or anyone says.
House serves Cuddy breakfast, but quickly realizes that she wants to leave and insists that
he can tell when she’s lying. She wants to know something about him that’s a secret, and he
says he used to have an intimate relationship with a photograph of her and a sock. He tries to
then claim he’s lying, but Cuddy knows better. House goes to the bathroom and takes Chase’s
call that Alex felt he had to legally notify DPH that there is no neurosurgeon on site. House tells
Chase to deal with it.
The team gets back together and realizes there’s no neurosurgeon they can get. Chase wonders
if House is testing them, and Foreman wonders whether to make the report or cover it up.
Thirteen suggests they get Richardson better, and Chase ends up having to go with her.
House opens a bottle of champagne with a sword in honor of their relationship and shatters
it. Wilson arrives and starts pounding on the door. They ignore him but he calls and hears the
cell phone ring. House finally answers and pretends to be his own answering machine. It doesn’t
work at all, and House claims that Cuddy gave him the day off and he’s fine. Wilson finally leaves,
but warns that he’ll be back if House doesn’t show up for work the next day.
Thirteen and Chase go to see the vomiting Richardson, who insists he ate bad sushi and is
sick. They suspect it isn’t food poisoning and figure they need to treat the damage to his stomach
lining. Thirteen asks if Richardson would take a risky drug to get rid of the symptoms.
After sex, Cuddy asks why House didn’t let Wilson in. House figures she didn’t want their
relationship to be public, and she points out she wouldn’t do it if she wanted it to be private.
Then Cuddy wonders if he’s not ready.
After giving Richardson the medicine, Thirteen and Chase play chess and wait to see if he’s
stable. She then tells Chase to give her his opinion on the Huntington’s trial. Chase isn’t interested, but asks if she’ll have sex with him. He figures he has to do it now before she leaves for
Rome. Richardson seemingly recovers and is ready to go back to the hospital. However, he then
starts going on about how shiny a lamp is. They figure it’s a side effect of the drug, but get him
to the hospital anyway.
House decides to prove he’s willing to go public by filming a sex tape and sending it to Wilson.
They hear glass break and House takes the sword and goes to investigate. He finds Wilson stuck
partway through the window, and offers him tea. Wilson figures that House is upset after losing
his patient, but House insists he’s just there to have sex with his girlfriend. House finally lets
Wilson in and says his girlfriend is Cuddy. Wilson doesn’t believe it and figures House is having
a relapse. House takes Wilson to the bedroom only to discover that she’s not there.
Wilson checks to see if House is on drugs, and House insists he was just trying to make a
point. When Wilson offers to stay, House says he doesn’t have to but Wilson figures that he needs
someone after losing a patient. Wilson finally leaves and House finds Cuddy hiding in the closet.
Taub and Thirteen check on Richardson, who is getting worse. Alex points out that Richardson
can’t function as a neurosurgeon, and Taub claims Richardson has high blood sugar. Thirteen
figures he has either peptic ulcer disease or hepatitis. Taub then asks how long she’ll be gone,
and Thirteen admits that she doesn’t know. He says that he approves of her undergoing the trial,
surprising her.
Cuddy claims that she pressured House into going public, and figures if she forces him, their
relationship won’t work. In response, he challenges her to a game of Boggle.
Chase tells Alex that Richardson is doing better and brings in the DPH inspector, Malkin,
but then stalls and says Richardson is in surgery. Malkin then wonders why Alex said that
Richardson wasn’t there, and Alex lies. Once Malkin starts to go, Richardson staggers out and
complains of a fever, and starts removing his clothing. Malkin tells them to start evacuating
patients because he’s shutting down their departments.
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House and Cuddy play Boggle, and Cuddy wonders why House didn’t tell her he loves her in
response to her declaration. He insists it’s perfectly natural behavior... and spells out ”ILOBEYOU.”
As Malkin oversees the removal of patients to other hospitals, Chase reports that the lab
results show nothing wrong with Richardson. Foreman suggests that his symptoms might have
nothing to do with their drug treatment. Richardson explains he snuck out and went to a seafood
convention. Thirteen wonders if he had roe, and remembers that roe causes nausea and a high.
She prepares to give him a fast-acting antidote so they can get him back to work.
Cuddy and House are back in bed, discussing places to go in France. He orders tickets and
suggests they leave right away, but Cuddy says she has to take care of her daughter. House
wonders why she won’t adjust her schedule for him, and Cuddy agrees to go in two weekends,
once she has some prep time to make arrangements for Rachel to stay with her grandmother.
House agrees.
Thirteen gives Richardson the antidote, and Foreman apologizes to Thirteen. He then hopes
she has someone going with her so she won’t be alone, and offers to fly over with her as a friend.
Thirteen thanks him, but says she’ll be okay on her own. They hold each other’s hands, and
Richardson joins in.
As Cuddy prepares to leave, she thanks House for everything. However, as she starts to go,
House says that it won’t work. Cuddy wants to discuss it, and House figures that she’ll remember
all of the horrible things he’s done in the past, and figure that he’ll eventually revert.
Chase and Thirteen bring in a seemingly normal Richardson, and explain that he was suffering from temporary food poisoning. Malkin insists on testing Richardson, who passes with flying
colors. The DPH inspector orders the patients back, and Chase invites Thirteen to join them for
celebratory cake. He then brings up his question about sex and wants to confirm. She makes
very sure he knows that she doesn’t want to have sex with him, and gives him a hug.
Cuddy sits down to talk to House, and he warns that he’ll do horrible things to her again.
He doesn’t believe he can change, and asks Cuddy if he’s wrong. She insists that she doesn’t
want him to change, and that he’ll always be screwed up. But he’s the most incredible man she
knows, and always will be. Cuddy says he either has to break up with her or she’s going home,
and kisses him. House admits he loves her
Taub and Chase find Foreman sitting alone with the celebration cake. He tells them that
Thirteen never signed up for the Huntington’s trials in Rome, and that she’s disconnected her
phone lines. There’s no trace of hers.
Cuddy assures House that everything will be fine, and then leaves. Once each of them is
alone, they both look worried.
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Selfish
Season 7
Episode Number: 133
Season Episode: 2
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Summary:
Eli Attie
Daniel Attias
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman), Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson), Peter Jacobson (Dr. Christopher Taub), Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert
Chase)
Alyson Stoner (Della Carr), Allan Rich (Sydney), Stephanie Courtney (Claire Carr), Murray Gershenz (Maurice), Cody Saintgnue (Hugo
Carr), Dwier Brown (George Carr), Sean Smith (Ernest Griffin), Reggie
De Leon (Vincent), Chase Austin (Billy)
HOU-702
A family copes with a sick daughter and a dying son, and the team
must diagnose the daughter before it’s too late. Meanwhile, House
deals with an elderly father and son, and tries to deal with the challenges of a workplace romance.
Della Carr is skating at an indoor park
for a muscular dystrophy charity event
as her brother Hugo watches from his
wheelchair along with his friends. She
then takes Hugo out on the ramps as
their parents George and Claire look on.
She lets him go and then collapses.
House meets Cuddy in the parking
garage and is eager to make their relationship public, but Cuddy doesn’t want
to yet and insists that they go to HR first to register their relationship. House agrees, but makes
sure to grope her first. In the lobby, Cuddy tells him that Della’s heart briefly stopped and wants
him to take the case, and House agrees.
The team goes into differential to review Della’s case. House announces that he’s seeing
Cuddy, and Wilson leaves, figuring it’s another practical joke. Taub warns it’s not a good idea,
and Foreman figures it’s good they’re finally together. House wonders where Thirteen is, but is
curiously unconcerned when told that she’s disappeared after lying to the team about a possible
treatment in Rome. Chase is more interested in pursuing the case. Foreman suggests muscular dystrophy passed on genetically, but Taub and Foreman wonder why House isn’t concerned
about Thirteen’s absence. House refuses to tell them why he doesn’t care and returns to the
diagnosis. House tells them to scare Della to confirm a diagnosis of long QT.
As Taub and Foreman leave, they disagree about House’s testing procedure. Foreman figures
that the new relationship is mellowing House out, but Taub warns that when it inevitably fails,
House will be more miserable and cranky than ever.
House goes to see Wilson, who still believes that House is trying to prank him. Cuddy comes
in to blame House for telling everyone, and says they need to go to Human Resources. Wilson
isn’t convinced since House goes to HR so often, and House tries to kiss Cuddy to confirm what’s
going on. She then kisses House, but Wilson isn’t convinced because it’s not so passionate. When
Cuddy

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